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Gun Baby Gun
Iain Overton
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Description for Gun Baby Gun
Paperback. 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 Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JFFE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA NON-FICTION DAGGER In some places, it's easier to get a gun than a glass of water. In some places, you are allowed to carry concealed firearms into schools. In some places, there are more guns than people to shoot them. There are almost one billion guns across the globe today - more than ever before. Every minute of every day, someone somewhere is shot. Gun Baby Gun is a hard-hitting and urgent investigation into the gun's lifespan, into our hugely complex relationship with firearms and their undeniable, long-reaching and often hidden impact. Along the way, award-winning journalist Iain Overton unearths some stark truths about the everyday human cost of gun crime.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782113454
SKU
V9781782113454
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-22
About Iain Overton
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. Follow @iainoverton on Twitter #GunBabyGun www.gunbabygun.com
Reviews for Gun Baby Gun
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
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
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
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