***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 Week
On 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.
Peter Apps meticulously exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. 72 people did not need to die, as the Grenfell Tower Inquiry makes clear. Here is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.
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Show Me the Bodies 9780861546152 Paperback
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Book. How we let Grenfell happen
A really informative book
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This book is life changing
This is probably the most powerful book I’ve read. It’s a searing indictment of the state of the building regulations framework, which sounds like it will be a dry technical read, but is brilliantly written. But massively the book brings the stories of the occupiers of Grenfell Tower to life with w…
This is probably the most powerful book I’ve read. It’s a searing indictment of the state of the building regulations framework, which sounds like it will be a dry technical read, but is brilliantly written. But massively the book brings the stories of the occupiers of Grenfell Tower to life with warmth and humanity.
- Authors:
- Apps, Peter
- Year Published:
- 2022
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780861546152
- Number of Pages:
- 352
- Publication Date:
- 10/11/2022
- Publisher:
- Oneworld Publications
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780861546152