THE CLOSEST PLACE ON EARTH THAT YOU WILL GET TO HELL - Charlie Bronson
Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told.
In the winter of 1979, aged just twenty-seven, the inmate who would come to be known as 'Charlie Bronson' was considered uncontrollable by the prison system. Certified insane, he was transferred from Parkhurst Prison to the most infamous high-security psychiatric hospital in England, Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. There he embarked on a one-man campaign to retain his sanity, and to fight against the brutality of a largely hidden regime that relied on enforced drug control.
This outstandingly honest account takes the reader back to those dark days. It is a journey filled with sadness, and yet it is one that includes much laughter and pathos, as well as detailing the camaraderie among fellow patients, who included Ronnie Kray and Frankie Fraser. How Charlie Bronson survived Broadmoor, what he endured and the things he witnessed are, for the very first time, documented in this sad, moving, often chilling and sometimes funny account of one man's journey into madness and his methods for surviving the UK's most feared and notorious psychiatric hospital. Capturing Bronson's unique voice, it is a roller-coaster ride of madness, pain, laughter and tears.

Charles Bronson is surely the best-known prisoner in the British penal system, and has served for far longer than any sentence he might have been awarded for an armed robbery that netted him GBP26

About the Author
Charlie Bronson (now Salvador) was born Michael Peterson in Luton in 1952 and was first imprisoned, for armed robbery, in 1974. Subsequent sentences for other crimes followed, but he enjoyed brief spells of freedom in 1987 and 1992 before being returned to prison for conspiracy to rob. In 2000 he was given a life sentence for false imprisonment. Now in his fourth decade in prison, with over two-thirds of his time spent in solitary confinement, Charlie has spent time in almost every prison in the UK as well as all three maximum-security hospitals, Broadmoor, Rampton and Ashworth - and has survived them all. He has published seventeen books including autobiographies, two art books and a collection of poetry, as well as his bestselling Solitary Fitness. He has won multiple Koestler Awards (including 6 gold awards) for his art, poetry and sculpture, and his art has been displayed around the world, raising thousands of pounds for charities and needy individuals. In 2008 his life story was filmed as Bronson, with Tom Hardy in the title role. Today, Charlie is anti-drugs, anti-crime and anti-violence. In 2014, he changed his surname by deed poll to Salvador. In 2023, Charlie had one of the first public parole hearings in the UK. He continues to fight for his long overdue freedom and ultimate dream to create his artwork in his own cottage in the countryside.


Book Information
ISBN 9781789465372
Author Charlie Bronson
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint John Blake Publishing Ltd
Publisher John Blake Publishing Ltd
Weight(grams) 174g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 13mm