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With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place
The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece
To pilgrims from ancient China
asking us to understand what happened there
Julian Woodford: BOSS OF BENTHAL GREEN W9 [2016] hardback ZCHAR With his extraordinary skill forJulian Woodford uncovers the breathtakingly appalling life of Joseph Merceron (1764 1839), gangster and corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth while presiding over the creation of the poorest slums in Georgian London. Ruling Spitalfields and Bethnal Green from his base in Brick Lane for half a century, Merceron gave the East End the bad reputation that still lingers today, while the exploits of recent mobsters and political miscreants
