Tower and Town, October 2018

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Blood On The Page, by Thomas Harding

Harding spent two years investigating a killing by interviewing key witnesses, police officers, forensic experts and journalists. In 2006 a notorious recluse was found murdered under piles of paper in his dilapidated house in upmarket Hampstead. The main suspect, Wang Yam, a political refugee from Tiananmen Square, was found guilty and sentenced to 20 years life imprisonment. The government ordered that the case be heard in camera, the first time that a British murder trial has been heard in secret. Did this case threaten national security?

With this in mind, Harding has to try and get to the bottom of what really happened.

Harding is a former journalist and documentary maker and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Prize in 2015 for the House on the Lake which chronicles the lives of the occupants of his grandmother’s house on the outskirts of Berlin.