Recs if you like Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen...

Every year, The Orwell Foundation awards prizes for the work which comes closest to George Orwell’s ambition ‘to make political writing into an art’. This list consists of all of the winners for Political Fiction & Political Writing (Non-Fiction) since 2019!

a list of books about cases that are (or are widely considered to be) miscarriages of justice. largely around wrongful (murder) convictions, but may be about other events (e.g. the horizon scandal)

To find horror it seems we need look no further than our fellow human beings. All these true crime books have themes ranging from the detriment of patriarchal norms in institutions and family dynamics, systemic racism, corporate and personal greed, homophobia, failures in the justice system and/or stigma of mental health and substance abuse treatment.

a list of books on famous British true crime cases (and other lesser known cases!), a mix of autobiographies/memoirs and biographies.