Sentence examples for shocking book from inspiring English sources

In 2003, former chief inspector of prisons David Ramsbotham wrote a shocking book, Prisongate.

The lasting impression left by this brilliant and shocking book is one of devastation.

In 1924, the German anti-war activist Ernst Friedrich published a shocking book called War Against War!

It is a deeply affecting and at times shocking book, which might be described as The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly but with a happy ending.

It is an astonishing, truly shocking book that connects unspoken terrors in the domestic world to social horrors exploding in public.

It was an oblique but coolly clever way of dealing with what both my parents must have found a rather shocking book.

Both Primo Levi and Carlo Levi -- the painter (unrelated) who wrote another of the great, shocking books of postwar Italy, "Christ Stopped at Eboli" -- sparked critical reflection on Fascism and the war in Italy, at a time when debate was much more muted elsewhere.

Besides being one of the most unsettling scenes to watch from the series (and that's saying something), it was even more shocking to book readers -- in the book Jaime and Cersei did have sex in front of Joffrey's corpse, but it was consensual.

There's nothing particularly shocking here; book jacket art, like fashion, is cyclical, and you can walk into any bookstore and find plenty of jackets that look alike.

The former British Children's Laureate Anne Fine commented: I have to wonder generally whether a children's publisher does not sometimes have a responsibility to stop and say that although a shocking new book will make money, and even be popular, it does not have what the Americans call "redeeming social importance".

She has gotten her lawyers to halt the sale of a shocking new book that claims that the mom of eight "fooled the world".