Hood Rat by Gavin Knight

Hood Rat by Gavin Knight

BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRIME WRITERS ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION DAGGER AWARD ‘THE MOST IMPORTANT CRIME STORY OF THE DECADE’ Scottish Mail Manchester. London. Glasgow. In the summer of 2011 violence erupted in our inner cities and many blamed gang culture. But is the truth so simple? Hood Rat tells the human stories that the media miss: of young men who have fallen through the system, and of one young woman with a vision for change. ‘Unflinching. It penetrates environments that most of us only ever glimpse’ Observer ‘Impressive. Knight uncovers the sort of stories that never make the news’ Scotsman ‘This British sensation is a must. Disturbingly compelling’ Marie Claire ‘A gripping novelistic immersion in the lives of young criminals’ Louis Theroux ‘The British Wire’ BBC Radio 5 Live

Gavin Knight has written for the Guardian, Newsweek, Esquire, The Times, Prospect and many other publications.

Over a two-year period he was regularly embedded with police units in inner-city London, Manchester and Glasgow. He also spent time with dozens of violent criminals involved in gang and gun crime. Hood Rat is his first book.

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ISBN 13	9780330523080
ISBN 10	0330523082
Title	Hood Rat
Author	Gavin Knight
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2012-02-16
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for CWA Dagger for Non-Fiction 2012 (UK), Long-listed for The Orwell Prize 2012 (UK)
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