LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a hundred years, 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper' has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who ...
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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a hundred years, 'the mystery of Jack the Ripper' has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England. But what if there was never really any 'mystery' at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice? In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of history's most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and institutionalised corruption. Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinson's inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts - the so-called 'Ripperologists' - to make clear, at last, who really did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.
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Near fine in Near fine jacket. Near fine condition. Fourth Estate, 2015. First UK edition-first printing (1). Red hardback(illustration on the front cover, two small nicks and dent on the edges of the cover and spine) with Dj(a couple of small creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover), both in near fine condition. Illustrated with b/w photos, drawings. Nice and clean pages as new but with a printing colour mark on the outer edges, light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 854pp including Author's note, appendices I and II, sources, index. Price clipped. First edition. Heavy book (approx. 1.3 Kg).
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New in fine dust jacket. 864 p. Audience: General/trade. FINE AS NEW & Unread. The writer & director of one of the finest drunken films ever made, Withnail & I, now approaches the Ripper myth from so novel & detailed a viewpoint that you instantly forget the rest. 10x7" Deep Red Picture Boards HB with Black endpapers, unpriceclipped Leighs 1818 London map detail DJ also FINE. 850pp, ISBN 0007548873