Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel By Gordon Burn

Gordon Burn likes blurring fact and fiction, especially when grisly crime is involved: Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son was about Peter Sutcliffe, Happy Like Murderers was about Fred and Rose West. So it's no surprise the vanishing of Madeleine McCann is nominally the topic for his latest.

Billed as a bold experiment, it reads like a well-written blog: smug, selfdefeating, and occasionally completely gripping.

Synopsis by Foyles.co.uk
Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. A daring and thrilling novel from one of the most astute observers of celebrity and tragedy, that is sure to make the headlines itself.