Description
| Product ID: | 9781529057065 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Nothing But The Truth |
| Subtitle: | The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer |
| Authors: | Author: The Secret Barrister |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Memoirs, Memoirs, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Law: study and revision guides, Law & society, Legal ethics & professional conduct, Criminal law & procedure, Law: study & revision guides, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating From the number one bestselling, award-winning Secret Barrister – an entertaining and surprising memoir about their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning reformer. <p><b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller</b><br><br><b>Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir <i>Nothing But The Truth</i> tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.</b><br><br><b>'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious' </b>– Adam Rutherford<br><br>In a diary that takes us behind the scenes of their middling ambition, <i>Nothing But The Truth</i> charts the progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. By way of the painfully archaic traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, and the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage - which most don't survive . . . here is the brilliant reality of being a frustrated junior barrister.<br><br>With a keen eye for the absurd and an obsessive fondness for Twitter, the Secret Barrister reveals the uncomfortable truths and darkest secrets about life in our criminal courts.<br>_____<br><br><b>‘Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ </b>– <i>The Times</i><br><b>‘Written with compassion, wit and intelligence’ </b>– <i>TLS</i><br><b>‘Excellent . . . a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails' </b>– <i>The Telegraph<br><br><sub>Nothing But The Truth </sub></i><sub>was a <i>Sunday Times </i>besteller w/c 28.05.23</sub></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-05-11 |