{"title":"Books by Ray Robinson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780761126096","title":"Famous Last Words, Fond Farewells, Deathbed Diatribes, and Exclamations Upon Expiration","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”—Pancho Villa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Drink to me!”—Pablo Picasso\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A collection of notable last recorded words of the dying, Famous Last Words is bursting with life, hope, wisdom, and often laughter. Here are writers, philosophers, athletes, kings and queens, movie stars, politicians, and more, in all sorts of moods and states of preparedness. Some merely want to say goodbye to loved ones, others want to create a legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, every one of these parting statements is a reflection of the person behind it. Each is accompanied by a mini-biography of the speaker, including the context of death, from the golf course (“That was a great game of golf, fellers.”—Bing Crosby) to a favorite armchair (“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.”—Karl Marx).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56299459019125,"sku":"9780761126096","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780761126096_5a09cadd-ab74-44d9-9a98-43deb9b787fe.jpg?v=1786015674"},{"product_id":"9781785631382","title":"The Mating Habits of Stags","description":"‘Poetic and powerfully brutal...a one-off’ – The Times The lyrical new novel from the award-winning author of Electricity and Forgetting Zoë SHORTLISTED: Portico Prize  Midwinter. As former farmhand Jake, a widower in his seventies, wanders the beautiful, austere moors of North Yorkshire trying to evade capture, we learn of the events of his past: the wife he loved and lost, their child he knows cannot be his, and the deep-seated need for revenge that manifests itself in a moment of violence.    On the coast, Jake’s friend, Sheila, receives the devastating news. The aftermath of Jake’s actions, and what it brings to the surface, will change her life forever. But how will she react when he turns up at her door? The Mating Habits of Stags is a journey through a life of guilt and things unsaid – and as beauty and tenderness blend with violence, Robinson transports us to a different world, subtly exploring love and loss in a language that both bruises and heals.    An early version of the story was released in 2016 as the short film Edith, starring Peter Mullan and Michelle Fairley, which was Bafta-longlisted for Best British Short Film.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312853725557,"sku":"9781785631382","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781785631382_bebeecce-52eb-417b-8538-ab60dd395fd0.jpg?v=1786026091"},{"product_id":"super-8-dream","title":"Super 8 Dream","description":"‘Fast, feverish and arresting’ George HarrisonPaul lives quietly in a northern town. By day, he works at a café; by night, he channels his anguish into the dark, arresting panels of his graphic novel, burying childhood trauma beneath ink and imagination.   When a chance conversation with a family member shatters this fragile equilibrium, he makes a decision that will change his life: he goes to the police. As rage, doubt and exhaustion threaten to overwhelm him, Paul must decide how far he is willing go in pursuit of the truth.   Ray Robinson charts one man’s journey from silence to reckoning, in a powerful story of art, memory and the cost of justice.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487717335413,"sku":"9781785634765","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781785634765.jpg?v=1786354943"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-ray-robinson.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}