Gordon Burn was the author of four novels, Alma Cogan (winner of the Whitbread First Novel Prize), Fullalove, The North of England Home Service and Born Yesterday. He was also the author of the non-fiction titles Somebody”s Husband, Somebody”s Son, Pocket Money, Happy Like Murderers, On The Way to Work (with Damien Hirst) and Best and Edwards. His last book, Sex & Violence, Death and Silence, was a collection of his essays on art.
9 Ebooks by Gordon Burn
Gordon Burn: Somebody”s Husband, Somebody”s Son
It seemed the case of the notorious Yorkshire Ripper was finally closed when Peter Sutcliffe was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981. But in the early 1980s Gordon Burn spent three years living in …
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Gordon Burn: Sex & Violence, Death & Silence
'The Pop artists were among the first to understand the desire of consumers to change their lives through the purchase of clean, manufactured commodities. YBA, on the other hand, was more …
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Gordon Burn: Happy Like Murderers
An account of two people – Fred and Rose West – who lived together, raised (and killed) children, provided sexual services for anyone interested, and pretended to provide social services for single …
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Gordon Burn: Best and Edwards
'The hero is the creature other people would like to be. Edwards was such a man, and he enabled people to respect themselves more.'By the mid-fifties Manchester United had caught the …
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Gordon Burn: Pocket Money
Following the 1985 final between Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis, Britain found itself in the grip of a new sporting obsession. Snooker, or 'Coronation Street with balls', was suddenly big …
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Gordon Burn: Born Yesterday
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine Mc Cann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And …
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Gordon Burn: The North of England Home Service
Spring 2001, and the countryside of the North East of England resembles Fitzgerald's 'valley of ashes': the air is choked with the stench and smoke of the pyres which are burning in an …
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Gordon Burn: Alma Cogan
How does it feel to be never allowed to die? In his classic début novel, Gordon Burn takes Britain's biggest selling vocalist of the 1950s and turns her story into an equation of celebrity and …
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Gordon Burn: Fullalove
Norman Miller used to be one of Fleet Street's finest. Now he's a middle-aged, burned-out hack with a gift for the sensational story, the shouting tabloid lead. But as he reports on a …
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