Born Yesterday The News as a Novel

Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news: floods, foot and mouth, the disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann, the arrival of Gordon Brown, and, terror attacks in Glasgow. Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. This is a daring and thrilling novel from one of the most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy, that is sure to make the headlines itself.