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The Damage Done
In 1978 Warren Fellows, Paul Hayward and William Sinclair were convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. They were sentenced to life imprisonment in Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang men's...
A Life Inside: A Prisoner's Notebook
Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He was in his twenties. Over the past three years, he has written powerfully about...
F: Hu Feng's Prison Years
Hu Feng, the 'counterrevolutionary' leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party's prison system. But back in the Party's early days, he was one...
Killing Time: Surviving Dubai's Most Notorious Prisons
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Karl Williams was on holiday in Dubai, living it large with two English friends, when they were accused of drug dealing, arrested, and tortured by police. They were innocent, but...
The Man Who Wasn't There
LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NON FICTION 2024 'deeply powerful and beautiful' - Trent Dalton, bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies 'a riveting...
Edison and the Electric Chair: A Story of Light and Death
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A Discover magazine Top Science Book Thomas Edison stunned America in 1879 by unveiling a world-changing invention--the light bulb--and then launching the electrification of America's cities. A decade later, despite...
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as the men and women he works with...
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness
The phenomenal New York Times bestseller now published in the UK for the first time Once in a great while a book comes along that radically changes our understanding of...
It's Always Possible: Transforming One of the Largest Prisons in the
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Motivation, persistence and perseverance are the distinct traits of determined and dedicated individuals who can make things happen. It's always possible, even when the task is awesome -- transforming the...
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
How an innocent man, who spent 30 years on death row, found nothing could destroy his capacity for hope, joy and love. **WINNER OF THE 2019 MOORE PRIZE ** **THE...
The Bastille of Ireland: Kilmainham Gaol: From Ruin to Restoration
Kilmainham Gaol is a building with a remarkable history. From 1796, when the first prisoners were received within its portals, to 1924, when the last prisoners were removed, it held...
The Politics of Cruelty: Essay on the Literature of Political
This work sets out a new theory of politics for today, and offers a harrowing view of the modern state based on the practice of torture as a method of...
Convict-era Port Arthur: Misery of the deepest dye
An evocative narrative of the many tragedies that fell upon those who were forced to serve time in Port Arthur, one of the most remote and feared convict locations in...
The Fatal Shore
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'An extraordinarily vivid yet authentic account of the birthpangs of a nation. A work of real distinction' Philip Ziegler An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia In 1787, the...
Bad Girls: A History of Rebels and Renegades
Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian...
Eye for An Eye: The Richard & Judy Winter 2024 Book Club thriller that
OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.UNTIL NOW...'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. They both share the same secret:...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
'One of the best books about prison I've ever read' Kimberley ChambersA chilling look into the brutality of life behind bars and what it's like to be locked away with...
Dumbest Criminals
p>A humorous insight into some of history's dumbest criminals./p>p>You'll have heard about a bank robbery going wrong? Picture someone going into a bank, robbing the teller, all proceeding as planned,...
States of Incarceration: Rebellion, Reform, and America's Punishment System
A crucial book for our current moment, uncovering the history of mass incarceration in the United States and engaging with the major challenges of contemporary prison and police abolition activism....