Description
| Product ID: | 9781509808878 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Prison Diaries |
| Title: | A Prison Diary Volume I |
| Subtitle: | Hell |
| Authors: | Author: Jeffrey Archer |
| Page Count: | 288 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: historical, political and military, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Diaries, letters and journals, Penology and punishment, Diaries, letters & journals, Prisons, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The number one bestseller and storyteller writes a powerful account of life inside the British penal system. <p><i>Hell</i> is the haunting first volume in Jeffrey Archer’s The Prison Diaries, the author’s daily record of the time he spent there.<br><br><i>‘The sun is shining through the bars of my window on what must be a glorious summer day. I’ve been incarcerated in a cell five paces by three for twelve and a half hours, and will not be let out again until midday; eighteen and a half hours of solitary confinement. There is a child of seventeen in the cell below me who has been charged with shoplifting</i> <i>– his first offence, not even convicted – and he is being locked up for eighteen and a half hours, unable to speak to anyone. This is Great Britain in the twenty-first century, not Turkey, not Nigeria, not Kosovo, but Britain.’</i><br><br>On Thursday 19 July 2001, after a perjury trial lasting seven weeks, Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in jail. He was to spend the first twenty-two days and fourteen hours in HMP Belmarsh, a double A-Category high-security prison in South London, which houses some of Britain’s most violent criminals. This volume recounts his experience while there.</p> |
| Imprint Name: | Pan Books |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-04-06 |