Ten Days

Author(s): Gillian Slovo

Crime

It's 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire. In this gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author Gillian Slovo, ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from a stifling heatwave. And, as Westminster careers are being made or ruined, lives are at stake. Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London collide.


Product Information

An extraordinary novel - a page-turner thick with greed, ambition, love and secrets, and simultaneously an incisive portrayal of power and powerlessness in today's Britain -- KAMILA SHAMSIE Ten Days of tension, trouble and tough truths - Gillian Slovo tells it like it almost certainly is - she's written a cracker -- VAL MCDERMID Ten Days tackles the dangers we all face when politics and policing collide. The result: an unputdownable Slovo read. -- SHAMI CHAKRABARTI

Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of thirteen books, including five crime novels, the courtroom drama Red Dust, which was made into a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice Road. She co-authored the play Guantanamo - Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, which was staged internationally. Her research for her play The Riots inspired Ten Days. Gillian Slovo was President of English PEN from 2010 to 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in South Africa and lives in London.

General Fields

  • : 9781782116394
  • : Canongate Books
  • : Canongate Books
  • : 0.461
  • : November 2015
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Gillian Slovo
  • : Paperback
  • : Export/Airside/Ireland
  • : en
  • : 823.92
  • : 352