{"title":"Books by Tom Feiling","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780141034461","title":"The Candy Machine","description":"\u003cb\u003eCutting through the myths about the white market, Tome Feiling's \u003ci\u003eThe Candy Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of cocaine as it's never been told before.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabrielle unwinds at weekends with a line of coke - and also works for a major police force. Juan Pablo is a drugs mule in Bogotá who gets his stash from a sweathouse. Belica started picking coca when she was eleven. Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore, thinks legalization's the only way ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Cocaine is big business. Governments spend millions on an unwinnable war against it, yet it's now the drug of choice in the West. How did the cocaine economy get so huge? Who keeps it running behind the scenes? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  In \u003ci\u003eThe Candy Machine\u003c\/i\u003e Tom Feiling travels the trade routes from Colombia via Miami, Kingston and Tijuana to London and New York. He meets Medellín hitmen, US kingpins, British crack users and Brazilian traffickers, and talks to the soldiers and narcotics officers who fight the gangs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'An important study of the cultivation, usage and suppression of cocaine'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  '\u003ci\u003eThe Candy Machine\u003c\/i\u003e is highly addictive'\u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'It is hard to decide if Tom Feiling's future lies as a QC or the new Paul Theroux. A vivid, argumentative, arresting book' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  'I've read a few documentary accounts of the rise of cocaine, and this might be the best of them' \u003cbr\u003e  \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003eTom Feiling\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning documentary film-maker. He spent a year living and working in Colombia before making \u003ci\u003eResistencia: Hip-Hop\u003c\/i\u003e in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. His book \u003ci\u003eShort Walks from Bogotá: Journeys in the new Colombia \u003c\/i\u003eis published by Allen Lane.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56224508313973,"sku":"9780141034461","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780141034461_87125f14-8039-4d33-a286-4cdf8bf34558.jpg?v=1786011704"},{"product_id":"9780241959909","title":"Short Walks From Bogota","description":"For decades, Colombia was the 'narcostate'. Now it's seen as one of the rising stars of the global economy. Where does the truth lie? How did a land likened to paradise by the first conquistadores become a byword for hell on earth? And how is it rebuilding itself after decades of violence?\u003cbr\u003eWriter and journalist Tom Feiling has journeyed throughout Colombia, down roads that were until recently too dangerous to travel, talking to people from former guerrilla fighters to nomadic tribesmen and millionaires. Vital, shocking, wry and never simplistic, \u003ci\u003eShort Walks from Bogota\u003c\/i\u003e unpicks the tangled fabric of Colombia to create a stunning work of reportage, history and travel writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBooks of the Year 2012  Boyd Tonkin, \u003ci\u003eThe Independent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Creates a portrait of Colombia that is perceptive, unsensational, and full of humanity ... Feiling is a brilliant reporter, lucid, unflinching, morally engaged, and with an occasional deadpan sense of humour .. one of the most consistently intelligent and compelling books to have appeared on any South American country in recent years'  Michael Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tom Feiling takes us on an enlightening journey through a changing country that few understand'  Rachel Aspden, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A deeply political account of one man's journey to the violent heart of modern, rural, Colombia ... a must read'  Kevin Howlett, \u003ci\u003eColombia Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Feiling... venture[s] into areas that have been off limits for decades ... the sense of a vibrant nation worth discovering peeks out'  Siobhan Murphy, \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The best British travel writers like Norman Lewis or Bruce Chatwin give the reader more than simple travellers' tales. Feiling is of their company ... a brilliant, penetrating and highly readable account'  Robert Carver,\u003ci\u003e Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome of the best insights in the book come from the people Feiling meets, and memorably portrays ... a well-written, thoughtful book  David Gallagher, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDramatic and captivating  \u003ci\u003eWanderlust\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Elegantly written and knowledgeable. Feiling writes with the eye of a seasoned journalist and the style of a travel writer'  Carl Wilkinson, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTom Feiling spent a year living and working in Colombia before making Resistencia: Hip-Hop in Colombia, which won numerous awards at film festivals around the world, and was broadcast in four countries. In 2003 he became Campaigns Director for the TUC's Justice for Colombia campaign, which organizes for human rights in Colombia. His first book was \u003ci\u003eThe Candy Machine: How Cocaine Took Over The World\u003c\/i\u003e, which was based on over sixty interviews with people involved in all aspects of the cocaine business and the 'war on drugs,' and was published by Penguin in 2009.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56231363051893,"sku":"9780241959909","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241959909_cb0fba7f-140c-423c-84db-8de57ffa3ee5.jpg?v=1786012519"},{"product_id":"9781911184041","title":"The Island that Disappeared","description":"The creation myth of the US begins with the puritans of the Mayflower who went on to build the most powerful nation on earth. This is the story of the passengers aboard its sister ship, the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. Their crops failed, slaves revolted, and as crisis loomed the settlers turned to piracy. After the colony was wiped out by the Spanish Providence was forgotten in England, but the drama was re-played by those who settled the island 100 years later, now providing a fascinating microcosm of the Atlantic story.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313138413941,"sku":"9781911184041","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911184041_6e1a4507-1694-4301-b264-be464a1e53bf.jpg?v=1786029052"},{"product_id":"9780241640913","title":"Alone in Japan","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed writer and journalist, a vivid and wide-ranging portrait of love, sex and loneliness in contemporary Japan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo sex. No kids. No future?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Tom Feiling moved to Tokyo as a student in the early nineties, Japan was a beacon of the future: a rising superpower, a technology giant, and a global symbol of prosperity, civility and success. When he returned twenty-four years later, the country was still a sign of things to come – but, he began to realize, it was no longer a beacon. It was a warning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book offers a unique portrait of life in contemporary Japan, from the quiet of its furthest flung villages to the dynamism of its megacities. It tells the story of how, from the mid-seventies onwards, Japanese society unknowingly embarked on a vast, silent process of transformation that is still unfolding today. The country is still peaceful; it is still prosperous. But the population is shrinking. As things stand, it will fall by a third with each new generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTravelling through shrines and bars, rice fields and mango farms, coffee shops and old peoples’ homes, Feiling meets those affected by, and driving, this transformation. Through countless interviews and extensive research, he weaves together a powerful account of how and why men and women are ceasing to pair off and have kids. He reveals how sexual appetites and behaviours are both shaped by, and reshaping the evolving economy, and considers the risks – and the opportunities – of the rise in solo living in Japan, and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClear-sighted and surprising, \u003ci\u003eAlone in Japan \u003c\/i\u003eis a portrait of love, sex and death in contemporary Japan that should provoke and engage us all. It is an electrifying portrait of a nation on the brink by one of the most original reporters working today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56367863005557,"sku":"9780241640913","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682719211893,"sku":"9781802062991","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780241640913_9c46f5f5-04b3-4c0b-897d-c92d151884d4.jpg?v=1792511620"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-tom-feiling.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}