Previous Convictions: Assignments From Here and There (The Hungry Student)

Gill, Adrian

ISBN 10: 0297851624 / ISBN 13: 9780297851622

Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2006

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First print. VG condition book with dust jacket. DJ is clean, has fresh colours and has little wear to edges. Book has clean and bright contents with no markings, 270pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Previous Convictions: Assignments From Here and There (The Hungry Student)
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297851624
• ISBN 13: 9780297851622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

A.A. Gill is probably the most read columnist in Britain. Every weekend he entertains readers of the Sunday Times with his biting observations on television and his unsparing, deeply knowledgeable restaurant reviews. Even those who want to hate him agree: A. A. Gill is hopelessly, painfully funny. He is one of a tiny band of must-read journalists and it is always a disappointment when the words 'A. A. Gill is Away' appear at the foot of his column. This second book is a further collection of those absences; 22 travel pieces and essays on other subjects that belie his reputation as a mere style journalist and master of vitriol. This is writing of the highest quality and ambition.

About the Author

A. A. Gill (1954-2016) was born in Edinburgh. He was the TV and restaurant critic and regular features-writer for the Sunday Times, a columnist for Esquire and contributor to Australian Gourmet Traveller. He was the author of A. A. Gill is Away, The Angry Island, Previous Convictions, Table Talk, Paper View, A. A. Gill is Further Away and The Golden Door, as well as two novels and the memoir Pour Me, which was shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Ackerley Prize. Lines in the Sand, a collection of his journalism in recent years, will be published in 2017.