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Nicholas Boggs's rich and subtle narration of Baldwin’s public story and his lucid discussion of his work are underpinned by what he calls “a search for the truth about Baldwin’s most sustaining intimate relationships and how they had shaped his life and art
I thought I could survive being his target
Val always said that this was his favourite novel to write and research
Jeremy Harding
The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War By Tim Butcher Material:Soft Cover Nicholas Boggs's rich and subtleOn a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, a teenage assassin named Gavrilo Princip fired not just the opening shots of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history, when he killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Yet the events Princip triggered were so monumental that his own story has been largely overlooked, his role garbled and motivations misrepresented. The Trigger puts this right, filling out as never before a figure who