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Milkman

Milkman won the Man Booker Prize in 2018 the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2019. Anna Burns, born in Belfast, is the author of two other novels, No Bones and Little Constructions, and of the novella, Mostly Hero. No Bones won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.

Milkman is a remarkable book — recording a specific time and a specific conflict with brilliant precision but universal in its account of how political allegiances crush and deform our instinctive human loyalties. Its tone of voice — wry and funny, furious and compassionate — is a marvel.”

Tom Sutcliffe

Perfidious Albion

“Sam Byers’ Perfidious Albion offers a sharply drawn cartoon of our current moment, a Hogarthian picture of a nation drunk on its own rancorous opinions. It’s a book about rage, about those who seek to exploit it, and the unnerving ease with which online social networks can dissolve our connections to those we live alongside.”

Max Daly

Submitted material

“What’s The Hidden Link Between Missing Children and the UK Drug Trade?”

“How Drug Dealing Gangs Are Taking Over the Countryside”

“Why London’s Teenagers Are Killing Each Other”

Max interviewed on Victoria Derbyshire about London Killings (BBC)

Frances Ryan

Submitted material

” ‘I could be taken from my home’: why disabled people once again fear being ‘warehoused'”

“The disability system is blocking people like Jaki from their benefits – literally”

“A year of dispatches from the frayed edges of Britain’s safety net”

Video content: “Blocked from benefits … literally”

 

Jane Bradley

Submitted material

“Exposed: Hundreds Of Homeless Slaves Recruited on British Streets”

“MPs Call For Change After BuzzFeed Reveals Hidden Homeless Slaves”

“Victims Of Trafficking Were Refused Free Legal Advice Because The Government Got The Law Wrong”

Video content: “Secret film reveals how rough sleepers are rounded up for labour exploitation on British streets”

Eve Livingston

Submitted material

“These Glasgow Women Are Fighting Back After Decades Of Discrimination”

“Thousands of low paid women are striking. Where’s the solidarity?”

“Why women in Glasgow are striking over equal pay”

Social media content: “Highlights from Glasgow Women’s Strike days 24th/25th October 2018”