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Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade
Posted On: June 2, 2010
Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Canongate
<i>Snowblind</i>: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade

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.

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March non-fiction round-up
Posted On: March 24, 2010
Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
March non-fiction round-up

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.

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An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby
Posted On: October 1, 2009
Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
An interview with David Simon, by Nick Hornby

“My standard for verisimilitude is simple and I came to it when I started to write prose narrative: fuck the average reader.”

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Drugby Union, by Richard Milward
Posted On: August 21, 2009
Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Faber
Drugby Union, by Richard Milward

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.

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Trick Baby: an introduction
Posted On: July 6, 2009
Posted In: Articles
Publisher: Canongate
<i>Trick Baby</i>: an introduction

Ice T wrote an introduction to Trick Baby in 1986, and it’s been published in Canongate’s 2009 edition.

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