Blood on the Page
WINNER of the 2018 Gold Dagger Award for Non-Fiction
Thomas Harding
- *****WINNER
- OF
- THE
- CRIME
- WRITERS'
- ASSOCIATION
- ALCS
- GOLD
- DAGGER
- FOR
- NON-FICTION***'Meticulous
- and
- gripping
- -
- a
- thriller
- that
- disturbs
- for
- revelations
- about
- a
- singular
- act
- of
- murder,
- and
- the
- national
- security
- state
- which
- we
- call
- home**'**
- Philippe
- Sands,
- author
- of
- East
- West
- StreetA
- groundbreaking
- examination
- of
- a
- terrifying
- murder
- and
- its
- aftermath
- by
- the
- bestselling
- author
- of
- Hanns
- and
- Rudolf
- and
- The
- House
- by
- the
- Lake.On
- 14
- June
- 2006,
- police
- were
- called
- to
- 9
- Downshire
- Hill
- in
- Hampstead.
- The
- owner,
- Allan
- Chappelow,
- was
- a
- writer
- and
- notorious
- recluse
- who
- had
- not
- been
- seen
- for
- several
- weeks.
- Inside
- the
- darkened
- house,
- officers
- found
- piles
- of
- rubbish,
- trees
- growing
- through
- the
- floor,
- and
- the
- body
- of
- Chappelow,
- battered
- to
- death,
- partially
- burned
- and
- buried
- under
- four
- feet
- of
- paper.The
- man
- eventually
- arrested
- on
- suspicion
- of
- his
- murder
- was
- a
- Chinese
- dissident
- named
- Wang
- Yam,
- who
- claimed
- to
- be
- the
- grandson
- of
- one
- of
- Mao’s
- closest
- aides.
- His
- trial
- was
- the
- first
- in
- modern
- British
- history
- to
- be
- held
- ‘in
- camera’:
- closed,
- carefully
- controlled,
- secret.
- Wang
- Yam
- was
- found
- guilty,
- but
- has
- always
- protested
- his
- innocence.Did
- Wang
- Yam
- do
- it?
- Or
- was
- he
- framed
- for
- a
- crime
- he
- didn't
- commit?When
- everything
- is
- hidden,
- how
- do
- we
- know
- what's
- really
- true?www.bloodonthepage.com
_________________***'***An
- In
- Cold
- Blood
- for
- our
- time
- –
- a
- brilliant
- and
- unflinching
- anatomy
- of
- a
- murder
- that
- is
- both
- brutal
- true
- crime
- and
- heartbreaking
- human
- tragedy'
- Tony
- Parsons'A
- fine
- and
- fascinating
- read,
- bolstered
- by
- exemplary
- research
- and
- nuanced
- insights.'
- Observer‘A
- real-life
- procedural...
- which
- might
- have
- important
- implications
- for
- us
- all.’
- Guardian'Reads
- like
- a
- thriller...
- a
- rigorous
- investigation...
- a
- revealing
- piece
- of
- social
- history.'
- Sunday
- Times'Detailed,
- painstaking
- and
- fascinating.'
- Evening Standard
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