Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen

Synopsis

Peter Apps is a journalist and author, as well as a former deputy editor of Inside Housing. His extraordinary, devastating book, Show Me The Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen, looks at the evidence of the public enquiry into the circumstances leading up to, and surrounding, the fire at London’s Grenfell Tower on the night of 14 June 2017.

Unpicking evidence heard over the course of 300 public hearings and 1600 witness statements, he paints a deeply disturbing picture of the historic, systemic, and practical failures that took the lives of 72 people, telling personal, tragic stories with a deep sense of empathy combined with journalistic rigour.

Show Me The Bodies also shows in stark detail why materials – and the stuff that literally surrounds us and is usually specified for us – really do matter. It’s both forensic and deeply heartfelt. Not easy reading but hugely important.