Peter Apps

About The Author

Peter Apps is an award-winning journalist and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing. He broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. He has not stopped reporting on this national tragedy since, and his book on the disaster, Show Me the Bodies, won the Orwell Prize for Political writing. He lives in London.

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Books by Peter Apps

Homesick

How Housing Broke London and How to Fix It

By Peter Apps

From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future

A Waterstones Book of the Year 2025

'Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With ...

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Show Me the Bodies

How We Let Grenfell Happen

By Peter Apps

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.<...

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