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Douglas Starr on Killer of Little Shepherds
Posted On: March 15, 2011Posted In: Interviews, Video
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
Douglas Starr, author of The Killer of Little Shepherds, discusses how real life crime-fighters managed to solve crimes before modern technology.
Read More...November crime round-up
Posted On: November 23, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
A selection of the best in new crime fiction and non-fiction from the Bookhugger publishers for the eleventh month featuring new novels from new and established authors, and re-printed true-crime investigative classics.
Read More...Nicolai Lilin interviewed
Posted On: September 20, 2010Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Canongate
Set in a small and tight-knit community of ‘honest criminals’ in a remote part of Russia, Siberian Education is a tale of an extreme boyhood – exotic, violent and completely unique. Author Nicolai Lilin answers questions put to him by Bookhugger’s readers.
Read More...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...Read the prologue to The Temptress
Posted On: May 28, 2010Posted In: Extracts
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
In Kenya’s ‘Happy Valley’ in the years spanning the 1920s to the 1940s no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941.
Read More...Siberian education, according to Nicolai Lilin
Posted On: May 13, 2010Posted In: Extracts, Interviews, Video
Publisher: Canongate
Nicolai Lilin was born in 1981 and grew up in the small republic of Transnistria which declared its independence from Moldova in 1990 but has never been recognised. In this video, Lilin tells us more about his experiences in Siberian Education, his memoir of growing up in a society of ‘honest criminals’.
Read More...April non-fiction round-up – part one
Posted On: April 22, 2010Posted In: Genre Round-ups
Publisher: The Bookhugger Crew
Part one of our selection of fantastic non-fiction releases from April – from the West Coast of American to Africa, from Nelson Mandela to Bonnie and Clyde, there’s something here for all tastes.
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...Win a copy of The Wire: Truth Be Told, signed by David Simon [closed]
Posted On: September 4, 2009Posted In: Competitions
Publisher: Canongate
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The Wire has been widely hailed as the greatest television series of all time. It portrays the war of attrition between the city’s hardened police force, and its drug dealers, and the blurring of good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong. Truth Be Told is the definitive guide.
Read More...Thomas Levenson Q&A
Posted On: August 14, 2009Posted In: Interviews
Publisher: Faber
Thomas Levenson is the author of Newton and the Counterfeiter. Here, he sheds further light on why he felt compelled to write about Newton and ‘the scoundrel’, how much he enjoyed researching 18th-century London, and what new material the reader can expect to encounter in the book.
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