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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 5 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 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 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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