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Career campaigner Fraser Neal continually clashed with local businessmen, most recently over the council's selling publicly-owned social housing in the Docklands to private developers and displacing vulnerable residents. Until he's found dead in an alley behind Tennessee Fried Chicken's wheelie bins. Neal was also a police informant – or so…

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1 author picked The Last Days of Johnny Nunn as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dark as coal, the second DS Lomax novel takes us slightly back in time to 2011 and a vision of London just before the Olympics begins. Tackling what initially may feel like dry subjects – regeneration, dirty money, corruption and community – the character of Johnny Nunn, a former-boxer now living on the streets as they change around him, injects heart and compassion into the story. An angry novel, but one I loved because it’s brimming with heart and courage, too.

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