Tom Wilkinson: Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made [2014] hardback BOARD What happens if she leaves

What happens if she leaves with Gabby

forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him

You're the bad mother you were destined to become

For all its gripping nightmare imagery

from Hubert Hassall's win in the first race in 1922 to Tom Herron's magnificent treble in 1978 and the domination of the Dunlop dynasty from the 1980s on

Tom Wilkinson: Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made [2014] hardback BOARD What happens if she leavesLonglisted for the Guardian First Book Award 2014 We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces we inhabit. We are born, work, love and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent it and squat in it, create and destroy it. These aspects of buildings economic, erotic, political and psychological are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture moulds us just as much as we