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They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper | Bruce Robinson
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of historys most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a hundred years, the mystery of Jack the Ripper has been a source of unparalleled fascination and horror, spawning an army of obsessive theorists, and endless volumes purporting finally to reveal the identity of the brutal murderer who terrorised Victorian England. But what if there was never really any mystery at all? What if the Ripper was always hiding in plain sight, deliberately leaving a trail of clues to his identity for anyone who cared to look, while cynically mocking those who were supposedly attempting to bring him to justice? In THEY ALL LOVE JACK, the award-winning film director and screenwriter Bruce Robinson exposes the cover-up that enabled one of historys most notorious serial killers to remain at large. More than twelve years in the writing, this is much more than a radical reinterpretation of the Jack the Ripper legend, and an enthralling hunt for the killer. A literary high-wire act reminiscent of Tom Wolfe or Hunter S. Thompson, it is an expressionistic journey through the cesspools of late-Victorian society, a phantasmagoria of highly placed villains, hypocrites and institutionalised corruption. Polemic, forensic investigation, panoramic portrait of an age, underpinned by deep scholarship and delivered in Robinsons inimitably vivid and scabrous prose, THEY ALL LOVE JACK is an absolutely riveting and unique book, demolishing the theories of generations of self-appointed experts the so-called Ripperologists to make clear, at last, who really did it; and more importantly, how he managed to get away with it for so long.
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#GratefulReads - Day Seventeen - #ThoughtYouWouldLikeButDidn‘t I like many, have always been fascinated with Jack the Ripper. I have read many books, each hypothesising a different name for the infamous murderer. I bought this book, based on the recommendation from ‘MFM‘ podcast: I found it truly awful. A sweary ( and I can swear like a sailor if in the mood) rant, based on the authors hatred of ‘Establishment‘ reads as a conspiracy theory.

OriginalCyn620 👍🏻📚 5y
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Emmalibby
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Book that starts with a T for #febinbooks18
Another one on my #tbr list! This is actually my dad's book that he got a couple of Christmases ago but he hasn't got round to it yet. (I see where I get it from 😄)

#readingchallenge #challenge #nonfiction #history #crime #truecrime

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"Truth is not biodegradable, even after 3,000 years."

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Yesterday's bookmail! My next read when finished IT 🤡