Hood Rat (Paperback)

from SmithSJ01

I enjoyed reading this book, a lot but I think it needs a lot doing to it to support an interesting premise. Firstly, the cover needs serious attention. It is dull and grey and certainly wouldn't stand out for me in a shop - which is how a lot of books do catch my eye, meaning I might just pass i...

from Chatterbox

This is a brilliant and insightful example of the "new journalism" at its best, a work of narrative non-fiction in which the writer observes and is a silent presence to the reader, letting the main characters whose lives and experiences he is chronicling tell their own stories in their own words....

from Chatterbox

This is a brilliant and insightful example of the "new journalism" at its best, a work of narrative non-fiction in which the writer observes and is a silent presence to the reader, letting the main characters whose lives and experiences he is chronicling tell their own stories in their own words....