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The book titled From Pentonville to Pentridge - the History of Prisons in Victoria by the author Peter Lynn. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

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...

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...

Now a major motion-picture starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, and Brie Larson. #1 New York Times bestseller, and a widely acclaimed and multi-award-winning book, this is a powerful, true...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

Hell is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer's The Prison Diaries, the author's daily record of the time he spent there. 'The sun is shining through the bars of...

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...

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...

If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...

Foucault's seminal work on torture, punishment, discipline and the prison system, now reissued in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons,...

'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...

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...

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:...

'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...

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,...

I'm half crazy, all for the love of you . . .Daisy is a mischievous ball of yellow fluff who enjoys chasing her tail and wrestling with her favourite toys....

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....