Granta has snapped up Outside: Before and After the End of History by Lynsey Hanley. Bella Lacey, m.d. and publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Nicola Barr at the Bent Agency.

Pithy and provoking, spiced with the personal' Hilary Mantel Lynsey Hanley grew up part of the 'respectable working class'. At university, she discovered that social mobility is not all it seems. This ...

Lynsey Hanley's vivid, powerful book is about a dream gone sour. The dream was that every slum would vanish and be replaced by attractive, well-built, publicly owned houses. We only came near this ...

Lynsey Hanley, who grew up on the huge Chelmsley Wood estate just outside Birmingham, has written an impassioned personal-cum-political account of the story of public housing in Britain. In the great ...

We talk a lot about the role class plays in British society, but how exactly do we move from one 'class' to another - and, if we can do so, what effect does it have on us? In her new book which she ...

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As expected, Jess Phillips has pulled out of the Labour leadership contest. She has based her parliamentary career so far – five long years – on the idea that she is special because she is ‘ordinary’.

Lynsey Hanley tells the story of postwar house-building and the rise of the new towns. Were places like Harlow disorientating dystopias or an idyllic escape from London's slums? Show more Lynsey ...

'Council estates have the effect of making people feel worse about themselves … there's something about them that makes me brim over with pain …' So says the journalist Lynsey Hanley, author of ...

Lynsey Hanley explores Britain's broken housing market through the stories of ten very different homes. Today, the story of Hillside Cottage in St Mawes, Cornwall. Show more Lynsey Hanley explores ...