Shortlisted for the Orwell Award. Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. Selected in The Guardian's Best Summer Books

New edition of one of Parthian's most acclaimed recent titles, complete with a stunning redesigned jacket. Ironopolis is a warren of streets, memories and people with secrets... Glen James Brown orchestrates a remarkable novel across these streets as Ironopolis tells its own story across three generations. Jean unveils a secret on her deathbed... Alan unravels the truth of his father, a man who has haunted the Burn Council Estate for a lifetime... Corina is just trying to get through one last day at the hairdressers before she closes it for good. And then there is the ageless Peg Powler, myth and reality, stalking them all...