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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Posted On: June 2, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
Drug smuggler turned author and campaigner for legalisation of cannabis Howard Marks introduces the new edition of Snowblind. the story of the legendary Zachary Swan, a mover in the cocaine trade in the sixties who set the standard for all who followed.
Read More...March non-fiction round-up
Posted On: March 24, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Enjoy Bookhugger’s roundup of the fantastically diverse non-fiction titles that have hit the bookshops this March – from Mussolini to the Mafia, and Eastenders to Okinawa, it’s all here.
Read More...An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby
Posted On: October 1, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.”
Read More...Drugby Union, by Richard Milward
Posted On: August 21, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Drugs and music make a wonderful couple. Without wanting to sound like a soggy-eyed grandmother-in-law, it’s like they really were made for each other. The best drugs make the best sounds sound even better, like replacing your old worn-out ears with new, state-of-the-art surround-sound speakers for a few sacred hours.
Read More...Trick Baby: an introduction
Posted On: July 6, 2009Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
Ice T wrote an introduction to Trick Baby in 1986, and it’s been published in Canongate’s 2009 edition.
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