Show Me the Bodies

How We Let Grenfell Happen

Peter Apps

• Publisher: Oneworld Publications
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9780861545957
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

***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 exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. This is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 12.54 a.m.
• 2 ‘A dumping ground’
• 3 1.20 a.m.
• 4 ‘Show me the bodies’
• 5 1.30 a.m.
• 6 ‘Very confidential!’
• 7 1.45 a.m.
• 8 ‘The benefits in terms of lives saved…are considered to be low’
• 9 2 a.m.
• 10 ‘We will be quids in!’
• 11 2.30 a.m.
• 12 ‘Let’s hope our luck holds’
• 13 3 a.m.
• 14 Risk assessment
• 15 4 a.m.
• 16 A blind spot
• 17 8 a.m.
• 18 ‘Space shuttles on the shard’
• 19 After the fire
• 20 A national scandal
• 21 ‘Keep grenfell in your hearts’
• 22 The deceased
• Acknowledgements
• Notes
• What you can do
• Copyright