Charles Burgess a used-car salesman on the north side is providing much of the local pop in the nationwide explosion of a literary genre known for its gritty often violent and even raunchy novels describing the hard life of America's central cities.
The streets in London’s Kensington and Chelsea district have the most expensive U.K. properties with sterling’s slide helping to lure buyers to an area where the average cost of a home exceeds 1 million pounds ($1.6 million).