Show Me the Bodies : WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023

Author(s): Apps, Peter
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 10/11/2022,
Pagination: 352 pages,
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780861546152,
Description:

***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023***'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the WeekOn 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames.

The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to 'stay put'. Many did - and they died.

It was a tragedy decades in the making.