 | Pies and Prejudice: In Search of the North by Stuart Maconie
Buy new: £2.17 / Used from: £0.50 Very funny and personal, well worth a purchase
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 | In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics) by Truman Capote
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £3.49 The invention of the 'non-fiction novel' starts here. Capote totally manages to keep himslef out of this text, the writing and handling is exceptional.
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 | 31 Days: A New York Street Diary by Alan Emmins
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.63 "Digging beneath the depressing statistics and grinding poverty, Emmins' is a more than human portrait" Dazed & Confused
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 | The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £2.69 Joan Didion is another writer who has total control of her craft, this very personal account of life during and after her husband's death is incredible and as with all great writers, handled perfectly
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 | Mop Men: California's Crime Scene Cleaners by Alan Emmins
Buy new: £3.60 / Used from: £2.50 "A gruelling indictment of modern American culture" the Independent
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 | A Very English Hangman: The Life and Times of Albert Pierrepoint by Leonora Klein
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £6.74 Leonora Klein was/is a barrister and this text in clinical and fast-paced. It is much more than a biography. Even if you are not interested in Pierrepoint there is much to take from this book.
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 | Who Killed Mr. Drum? by Sylvester Stein
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £2.60 Beautiful, sadm funny, enlightening... If you love crteative non-fiction you must have this on your shelf.
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 | Culture Is Our Weapon: Afro Reggae in the Favelas of Rio (LAB Short Books) by Patrick Neate
Buy new: £44.91 / Used from: £9.76 Patrick Neate dipping his toes superbly into non-fiction once again. Along with Damien Platt, this new book by Patrick is another superb read.
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 | My Life in Orange by Tim Guest
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 This funny and sad biography is great, Guest takes us into a world we can only squint at from afar
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 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: £3.49 / Used from: £2.46 An exceptional example of handling a horrific topic with care and tact while not sacrificing integrity..
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 | The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £3.24 What can be said really, just read it.
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