Fullalove

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 232. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; black endpapers.

Signed by Author to title page. Moderate tanning to textblock edges, else Fine.

Author's second novel. Tale of a burnt-out Fleet Street journalist and a veteran press photographer now relegated to covering the 'smudges' and 'gloat quotes'.

Burn's novels deal with issues of transient fame and faded celebrity, as well as life through the media lens. His debut novel, Alma Cogan, won the 1991 Whitbread Best First Novel Award. He channelled his fascination with true crime to two well-received studies of serial murderers, 'the Yorkshire Ripper' Peter Sutcliffe in Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son (1984), and similarly Happy Like Murderers: The Story of Fred and Rosemary West (1988).

"One of the landmark novels of the last decade." –Alex Clark, The Guardian