Discover Cityread London 2016

It’s 4 a.m. and Cathy Mason is watching dawn break over the Lovelace estate. By the end of the day, her community will be a crime scene. By the end of the week, her city will be on fire.

In this gripping thriller by Orange Prize-shortlisted author Gillian Slovo, ten unpredictable days of violence erupt from a stifling heatwave. And, as Westminster careers are being made or ruined, lives are at stake. Ten Days is about what happens when politics, policing and the hard realities of living in London collide.

Listen to extracts from the book by visiting Audible’s dedicated channel on Soundcloud.

About Gillian Slovo

Gillian Slovo is a playwright and the author of thirteen books, including five crime novels, the courtroom drama Red Dust, which was made into a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and the Orange Prize-shortlisted Ice Road. She co-authored the play Guantanamo - Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, which was staged internationally. Her research for her play The Riots inspired Ten Days. Gillian Slovo was President of English PEN from 2010 to 2013 and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was born in South Africa and lives in London.

“A very readable, perhaps even rabble-rousing tale about a roused rabble and the water-cannon-firing 'forces of law and order'”

Literary Review

“A page turner intent on keeping you avidly on edge into the small hours”

Metro

“Cracking ... an acute indictment of the power play between politicians and police ... Slovo's subject matter could not be more prescient”

Louise Doughty, The Guardian

“Ten Days tackles the dangers we all face when politics and policing collide. The result: an unputdownable Slovo read.”

Shami Chakrabarti

“An extraordinary novel - a page-turner thick with greed, ambition, love and secrets, and simultaneously an incisive portrayal of power and powerlessness in today's Britain”

Kamila Shamsie