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The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst's Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece

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and has made numerous appearances at universities and in online videos speaking on his subject

Julian Woodford: BOSS OF BENTHAL GREEN W9 [2016] hardback ZCHAR The Line of Beauty isJulian Woodford uncovers the breathtakingly appalling life of Joseph Merceron (1764 1839), gangster and corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth while presiding over the creation of the poorest slums in Georgian London. Ruling Spitalfields and Bethnal Green from his base in Brick Lane for half a century, Merceron gave the East End the bad reputation that still lingers today, while the exploits of recent mobsters and political miscreants