Peter Apps

In the early hours of 14 June 2017, a fire engulfed Grenfell Tower, a 24-storey block of flats in North Kensington, London. The flames spread rapidly due to the building's exterior cladding, which was as flammable as solid petrol. The safety mechanisms that residents relied on failed them; fire doors did not self-close, and no alarms rang to wake the...

‘EXCELLENT’ - THE TLS ‘HUGELY IMPRESSIVE’ - THE INDEPENDENT ‘AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY’ - COUNTRY LIFE ‘FASCINATING’ - DAILY MAIL The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's...

The Next World War takes readers behind the scenes of the most dangerous era of international tensions since the end of the Cold War, as countries and military forces prepare for potential large-scale combat on a scale unseen since 1945. From the corridors of power in Washington, Whitehall, Moscow and Beijing to the new frontlines of conflict in Ukraine, Taiwan,...

Property prices in London have increased sixteen-fold since Peter Apps was born. Once vibrant communities are being uprooted and businesses shuttered. Young people are abandoning London, heading for Brighton, Manchester, Sheffield – taking the city’s creative energy with them. Schools can’t fill their classrooms as families are priced out of the capital. And social housing is a mess. How on...

From the author of the Orwell Prize-winner SHOW ME THE BODIES: HOW WE LET GRENFELL HAPPEN, the gripping story of how housing defines a city's past, present and future. A Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 ‘Apps set the gold standard with his Grenfell coverage. With Homesick, he dismantles the sham of UK housing policy – razor-sharp, stylish, and morally...

'HUGELY IMPRESSIVE' - THE INDEPENDENT 'AN ASTONISHINGLY FINE HISTORY' - COUNTRY LIFE 'FASCINATING' - DAILY MAIL The history of the world's most successful military alliance, from the wrecked Europe of 1945 to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. As they signed NATO into being after World War II, its founders fervently believed that only if the West's democracies banded permanently together...