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£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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
View book details£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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