{"title":"Books by Richard Hamilton","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780755654512","title":"Tangier","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this first guide to Tangier's extraordinary cultural history , former BBC North Africa correspondent Richard Hamilton explores the city to find out what has inspired so many international writers, artists and musicians.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Tangier, the Moroccan novelist Mohamed Choukri wrote, ‘everything is surreal and everything is possible.’ In this intimate portrait, Hamilton explores hotels, cafés, alleyways and the city's darkest secrets. Delving down through complex historical layers, he finds a frontier town that is comic, confounding and haunted by the ghosts of its past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamuel Pepys thought God should destroy Tangier and St Francis of Assisi called it a city of ‘madness and delusions.’ Yet, throughout the centuries, it has also been a crucible of creativity. It was a turning point in Henri Matisse’s artistic journey and had a profound impact on the founder of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTangier also produced two of the greatest American novels of the twentieth century: \u003ci\u003eThe Sheltering Sky\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/i\u003e. Besides Paul Bowles and William Burroughs, the book also looks at lesser known characters such as the flawed genius, Brion Gysin, as well as Ibn Battuta, who travelled three times further than Marco Polo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing a thrilling cast of pirates, sultans, artists, musicians, writers, princes and playboys, this is an essential read about Tangier.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56298969891189,"sku":"9780755654512","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780755654512_1dd1be6b-56e8-4970-be25-92ae73f79be8.jpg?v=1786015716"},{"product_id":"9781683830849","title":"Scoop, Vol. 1","description":"\u003cb\u003eParanormal mystery meets conspiracy thriller in this action-packed comic for young adults starring Sophie Cooper, a brilliant student-intern-turned-sci-fi-sleuth out to clear her family’s name.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet fourteen-year-old Sophie Cooper—red-headed Cuban-American, high school freshman, and daughter of a loving father currently under house arrest for embezzlement and money laundering. While her mother struggles to support the family and her bratty younger brother, Kit, sits around tinkering with his “inventions,” Sophie has only one goal: clearing her father’s name.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When an internship opens up at the local news station, Sophie seizes the chance to do a little investigating of her own. Unfortunately, WMIA 7 isn’t exactly CNN. In between logging Betacam tapes and fetching coffee for the station’s washed-up reporting team, Sophie sifts through the “broken stories”: crank-calls and dead-end tips reporting everything from UFOs to alligator-men. However, one name keeps popping up: Matheson Savings and Trust, the bank that accused Sophie’s father of money laundering. Sounds like a conspiracy to this cub reporter!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Determined to follow her lead, Sophie sets out to investigate the weirdness, uncover a conspiracy, and clear her family’s name . . . just as soon as she finishes her homework.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis original edition is currently out of print.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303796552053,"sku":"9781683830849","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781683830849_d1c96d76-93e0-4a14-913b-46db336e4bbf.jpg?v=1786024817"},{"product_id":"9781838600006","title":"The Last Storytellers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAfter witnessing first-hand the death throes of this rich and captivating tradition, Richard Hamilton has tracked down the last few remaining storytellers of Morocco, recording stories that are replete with the mysteries and beauty of the Maghreb.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition. For nearly a thousand years, storytellers have gathered in the Jemaa el Fna, the legendary square of the city, to recount ancient folktales and fables to rapt audiences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this unique chain of oral tradition that has passed seamlessly from generation to generation is teetering on the brink of extinction. The competing distractions of television, movies and the internet have drawn the crowds away from the storytellers and few have the desire to learn the stories and continue their legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoroccan tales have a huge educational, religious and moral impact on their audience, offering timeless values and guidance to all who listen. With their passing we risk losing something of Morocco's national psyche and also part of the world's tangible heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who have listened to the storytellers at Marrakech first-hand have witnessed something that is no longer part of this world, a treasure as precious as the planet's most endangered species and of immeasurable importance to humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313010684277,"sku":"9781838600006","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781838600006_6aa8ba69-06f9-45c2-adcd-5d6f545537eb.jpg?v=1786027955"},{"product_id":"discordant","title":"Discordant","description":"Lyrical poetry offering multilayered examinations of injustices—from mass incarceration to failing schools and right-wing fascism.      Richard Hamilton’s second poetry collection, Discordant, is a searing examination of injustice both within the United States and abroad, from criticisms of the US military-industrial complex and failing healthcare system to multilayered observations of marginalization through the lenses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Hamilton’s poems look closely at increased austerity measures, commitment to mass incarceration and private prisons, disdain for workers and labor resistance, the expansion of the US military budget, the disappearance of federal subsidies for the working poor, failing schools and teacher shortages, market inflation and price gouging, and the rising tide of right-wing fascism.    Hamilton’s lyrical writing brings together free-form essays and personal narratives full of keen-eyed and urgent observations. Told from the perspective of a speaker who is unemployed and pensive, Hamilton shows how history haunts us while keeping the present in the foreground, constantly challenging oppression that has long been commonplace.   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