Gun Baby Gun by Iain Overton
A fast-paced, fascinating and hard-hitting investigation of the gun's lifespan and into our hugely complex relationship with firearms and their undeniable impact
A brilliantly researched journey, capturing the gun's strangely accepted place in human life and, far too often, death -- JON SNOW
A gripping book that's as disturbing as it is enlightening -- Charlie Burton * * GQ * *
A shocking book about the terrible realities of war and weapons * * Scotland’s Sunday Mail * *
Shocking... Overton has supped full of horrors and is not reticent about sharing them * * Newsweek * *
Adventurous...thoughtful... contains moments of great poignancy * * Financial Times * *
Iain Overton's starkly controlled prose allows us an insight into the emotions that come when we witness a shooting, and puts a human face on what often becomes just another statistic... one of the most thought-provoking books you'll read this year * * The National * *
A gripping book that's as disturbing as it is enlightening -- Charlie Burton * * GQ * *
A shocking book about the terrible realities of war and weapons * * Scotland’s Sunday Mail * *
Relentlessly engrossing..
* * The Spectator * *Shocking... Overton has supped full of horrors and is not reticent about sharing them * * Newsweek * *
Adventurous...thoughtful... contains moments of great poignancy * * Financial Times * *
Iain Overton's starkly controlled prose allows us an insight into the emotions that come when we witness a shooting, and puts a human face on what often becomes just another statistic... one of the most thought-provoking books you'll read this year * * The National * *
Iain Overton is Director of Investigations at the London-based charity Action on Armed Violence and an award-winning investigative journalist who has worked in over eighty countries around the world. Reporting from the killing zones of Columbia, Iraq and Somalia, as a filmmaker he directed documentaries for the BBC, ITN and Al Jazeera, as well as working with the Guardian, the Independent and the Sunday Times. His journalism has won a Peabody Award, two Amnesty Awards and a BAFTA Scotland, among others. He was also founding editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Gun Baby Gun is his first book.
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781782113454 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782113452 |
| Title | Gun Baby Gun |
| Author | Iain Overton |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2016-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |