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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 17 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book My Road From Damascus: A Memoir by Jamal Saeed
    My Road From Damascus: A Memoir - by Jamal Saeed

    £21.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781770416215 | ISBN 10: 1770416218

    “A lyrical, extremely rich narrative of loss, memory, and trauma.” — STARRED review, Kirkus Reviews  An extraordinary account of survival in Syria’s most notorious military prisons that is written with “brutal clarity — and yet, t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Behind Bars: On Punishment, Prison & Release by Lady Unchained
    Behind Bars: On Punishment, Prison & Release - by Lady Unchained

    £11.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914240317 | ISBN 10: 1914240316

    "So deeply gripping and inspiring...It will stay with me, always."(Annie Macmanus) In 2008, 21-year-old Lady Unchained got involved in a fight in a club while trying to protect her sister. Serving 11 months of her prison sentence, her life changed ... more

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  • Cover image of book Markievicz: Prison Letters and Rebel Writings by Lindie Naughton
    Markievicz: Prison Letters and Rebel Writings - by Lindie Naughton

    £17.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781785371615 | ISBN 10: 1785371614

    The Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz were first published in 1932 as a classic of feminist literature. Now restored to their original form by leading Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, this new edition features previously unpublished letters th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Solitary: Alone We Are Nothing by Gladys Ambort
    Solitary: Alone We Are Nothing - by Gladys Ambort

    £20.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781909976610 | ISBN 10: 190997661x

    As a young student and activist for a different social order, Gladys Ambort fell victim to political repression in the Argentina of the 1970s. Denounced by her college professor, she was incarcerated for three years, during part of which she underwen ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Woman
    One Woman's Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir - by Nasrin Parvaz

    £10.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781999619503 | ISBN 10: 1999619501

    In 1979, Nasrin Parvaz returned from England, where she had been studying, and became a member of a socialist party in Iran fighting for a non-Islamic state in which women had the same rights as men. Three years later, at the age of 23, she was betra ... more

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  • Cover image of book Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong
    Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir - by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781784702243 | ISBN 10: 1784702242

    Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978. A year earlier, he recalls, armed police arrived at his home and took him to Kenya’s Kamiti Maximum Security Prison. There, Ngugi lives in a ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Graybar Hotel by Curtis Dawkins
    The Graybar Hotel - by Curtis Dawkins

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786891136 | ISBN 10: 1786891131

    An unflinching and deeply moving collection of stories by a debut writer currently serving a life sentence in Michigan’s prison system. His stories form a vivid portrait of prison life, painted from behind bars.   A man sits collect-calling ... more

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  • Cover image of book Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption by Walidah Imarisha
    Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption - by Walidah Imarisha

    £13.50   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849351744 | ISBN 10: 1849351740

    Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the presence of actual harm - sometimes horrific violence. Imarisha, dealing with the complexities of her own e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grey is the Colour of Hope by Irina Ratushinskaya
    Grey is the Colour of Hope - by Irina Ratushinskaya

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781473637221 | ISBN 10: 1473637228

    The reissue of four unforgettable books by acclaimed poet, novelist and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya.   If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that wi ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Sense of Freedom by Jimmy Boyle
    A Sense of Freedom - by Jimmy Boyle

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785033032 | ISBN 10: 1785033034

    A moving, tragic and controversial memoir from one of Britain's most violent ex-criminals.   Jimmy Boyle grew up in Glasgow's Gorbals. All around him the world was drinking, fighting and thieving. To survive, he too had to fight and steal... ... more

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  • Cover image of book Don
    Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: 100 Days as a Prisoner of Putin - by Ben Stewart

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783350780 | ISBN 10: 1783350784

    There is a saying in Russian jails. Never ne boysya ne prosi: don't trust, don't fear, don't beg. Don't trust because life here will always disappoint you. Don't fear because whatever you're scared of, you are powerless to prevent it. And don't beg b ... more

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  • Cover image of book Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock by Jim Quillen
    Inside Alcatraz: My Time on the Rock - by Jim Quillen

    £12.99   hardback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781780894010 | ISBN 10: 1780894015

    Each day we saw the outside world in all its splendour, and each day that view served as a reminder that we had wasted and ruined our lives.   Jim Quillen, AZ586 - a runaway, problem child and petty thief - was jailed several times before his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj iek
    Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj - by Nadya Tolokonnikova and Slavoj iek

    £5.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781687734 | ISBN 10: 1781687730

    A fascinating exchange between the punk-philosopher and the philosopher-punk.   We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony by Clment Duval
    Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony - by Clment Duval

    £17.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781604865004 | ISBN 10: 1604865008

    In 1887, Clment Duval joined the tens of thousands of convicts sent to the dry guillotine of the French penal colonies. Few survived and fewer were able to tell the stories of their life in that hell. Duval spent fourteen years doing hard labor ... more

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  • Cover image of book Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance by Karlene Faith
    Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement and Resistance - by Karlene Faith

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781609801373 | ISBN 10: 1609801377

    Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance is the seminal book about women's imprisonment that helped spark examinations around the world into the special circumstances women face in prison, as well as the sex and gender crimes that get t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Prisoners
    Prisoners' Rights: Principles and Practice - by Susan Easton

    £35.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781843928089 | ISBN 10: 1843928086

    Prisoners Rights: Principles and Practice considers prisoners rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives, and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment an ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid
    A Human Being Died That Night: Forgiving Apartheid's Chief Killer - by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781846270536 | ISBN 10: 1846270537

    When Eugene de Kock, commanding officer of the apartheid death squads, was sentenced to 212 years for crimes against humanity, the black South Africans outside Pretoria's surpreme court cheered and danced: the killer who had been nicknamed 'Prime Evi ... more

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