Readers recommendMusicFrom rebel anthems to outlaw ballads, you suggested songs that best chronicle the criminal mindMusic is an area where humans seek to break free of rules, and striking a rebel pose is a favourite theatrical ploy of the musician seeking to make a name for him or herself. So identifying with a criminal is a good way to establish a musician's stance against authority. Let's start with two lesser-known versions of gold-standard crime-doesn't-pay rebel songs.

ArchitectureThe east London brutalist landmark Balfron Tower was conceived as the perfect neighbourhood in the sky by its Marxist architect. Now its flats are being sold as ‘trophy properties’ A dizzying dining deck crowns the summit of the newly renovated Balfron Tower in Poplar, east London, perched like a crow’s nest on top of the brutalist concrete lift shaft. Floating almost 30 storeys up in the air, with spectacular views across the city, it marks the apex of a new dedicated tower of leisure facilities.

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The ObserverMorrisseyAs a new biopic England is Mine charts the Smiths singer’s early life, fans speak of their disillusion at his increasingly outspoken viewsLike countless musicians, managers and record labels before them, the makers of the new movie England Is Mine have discovered that nothing is easy where Morrissey is involved. The unauthorised biopic follows ambitious young Steven Patrick Morrissey up to the point, in 1982, when he met guitarist Johnny Marr and formed the Smiths, the most fiercely beloved British band of their generation.

The ObserverFictionReviewThis debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking Claire Kohda’s debut is memorable for the refreshing perspective of her conflicted heroine: a vampire of mixed ethnicity and recent art graduate. Lydia struggles to accept the demon inside her and yearns to love, live and eat like a human. Her father, a successful Japanese artist, died before she was born. Lydia has committed her mother, a Malaysian-English vampire in declining health, to a home in Margate and accepted an internship with a contemporary London gallery known as the Otter.