An extensively researched portrait of the character and motivations of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who was convicted in 1981 for the sadistic murders of thirteen women

Somebody's Husband Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper

Biographies & Memoirs

Burn, Gordon

True Crime

Penguin??Books

Alma Cogan, one of Britain's biggest pop stars of the 1950s, gets involved with mass murderer Myra Hindley through a twist of fate

Alma

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

An investigation into the mind and crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the man who was dubbed the Yorkshire Ripper. Originally published by Pan in 1985.

"--Somebody's husband, somebody's son": The story of Peter Sutcliffe

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Gordon Burn's overview of the snooker game, its wheeling, dealing, rivalries and jealousies.

Pocket Money: Bad-boys, Business Heads and Boom-time Snooker

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Heinemann

Alma Cogan was Britain's best-selling vocalist of the 1950s. In this novel the author becomes Alma Cogan. A blend of fact and fiction, the book reinvents the popular culture of the post-war years. This book is the winner of the 1991 Whitbread Prize for a first novel.

Alma Cogan: A novel

Secker Warburg

Random House Value Publishing

The North of England Home Service

After forty years away, Ray Cruddas, a comedian with a national, considerably faded reputation, has returned to the North East to live. He has a new wife, a new club and a house close to a stand of trees which has haunted him from childhood. But he still believes he is living life at one remove, through the more vibrant, seemingly less complex and conflicted person of Jackie Mabe, the former boxer who, in his capacity as driver, drinking partner and gofer, has always stood between Ray Cruddas and the world. Jackie Mabe performed this role once before: for Jack Solomons, known as 'Jolly Jack' and 'the potentate,' who ruled British boxing in the decades before and after the War. Along with the Victorian painter Ralph Hedley, the Geordie comic Bobby Thompson, and Margaret Thatcher's director of communications Gordon Reece, Solomons is among the many real life figures who populate this extraordinary blend of fact and fiction. The North of England Home Service, like Gordon Burn's earlier novels, reanimates and reinvents popular culture, making unexpected connections and salvaging something palpable from the evanescent spectacle of contemporary life.

Contemporary

Faber&Faber

An account of the lives of Fred and Rose West, the Gloucestershire couple who abused and murdered their own children, as well as visitors to their house.

Happy Like Murderers

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Faber and Faber

Born Yesterday

The news - all news now - is essentially fiction: an accretion of rumour, surmise, spin and speculation gathered around a tiny nucleus of verifiable fact. There is increasingly little of what, back in the days pre-dating the worldwide web, the blogosphere and the rolling-news channels, used to be thought of as the plain, unvarnished truth.This is the jumping-off point for Born Yesterday. It is set in the summer of 2007, an extraordinarily rich time for news, with the attempted London and Glasgow car-bombings and the summer floods, the unexpected public traumas attending the smoking ban, and a new prime minister brought to the brink of calling a snap election. The story of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, meanwhile, still dominates the front pages, and Margaret Thatcher, an old woman in a shapeless coat and trainers, takes the air in the same London park as the writer.Gordon Burn, novelist and journalist, has taken the events of this memorable summer and turned them into a groundbreaking and compelling novel that makes us think again about the way news is made and how it can possess the richness and strangeness of fiction.

Literary

Best and Edwards

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Somebody's Husband Somebody's Son: The Story of the Yorkshire Ripper

Alma

"--Somebody's husband, somebody's son": The story of Peter Sutcliffe

Pocket Money: Bad-boys, Business Heads and Boom-time Snooker

Alma Cogan: A novel

Alma

The North of England Home Service

Happy Like Murderers

Born Yesterday

Best and Edwards