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Eye for An Eye: The brand-new book club thriller that will get everyone talking by M. J. Arlidge 9781398708204
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.25OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.UNTIL NOW...'Emily' is a devoted single mother.'Jack' starts a new job in a new town.They both share the same secret: neither of them are who... -
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.06San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs... -
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story by Neil Samworth
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75This Sunday Times bestseller is a shocking and at times darkly funny account of life as a prison officer in one of the country's most notorious jails.'Authentic, tough, horrifying in some places and... -
The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $19.26WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGANIn the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then he shot them in cold blood. For those murders Gilmore was sent to languish on Death Row - and could... -
The Damage Done: Twelve Years Of Hell In A Bangkok Prison W Fellows 9781840182750
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.59Think about the most wretched day of your life. Maybe it was when someone you loved died, or when you were badly hurt in an accident, or a day when you were so terrified you could scarcely bear it... -
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Michel Foucault 9780241386019
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Imaginative, illuminating and innovative' The New York Times Book ReviewThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western... -
The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.07An award-winning epic on the birth of AustraliaIn 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonise Australia.Documenting the brutal... -
Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.81'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well-trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and... -
Blanketmen: An Untold Story of the H-Block Hunger Strike by Richard O'Rawe 9781848405547
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $12.19Richard O'Rawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the 'Blanketmen', he took part in the dirty protests that led to the hunger strikes of the early 1980s. In... -
Sticks and Stones by Paul Scrase
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993526541Author Paul ScraseFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint -
Behind these Doors: As heard on Radio 4 Book of the Week by Alex South 9781399707596
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56*A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged. It's a place heavy with suffering, a place where you will find... -
Justice on Trial: Radical Solutions for a System at Breaking Point by Chris Daw
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.56'Chris is a powerful force for good in the national debate on criminal justice.' -The Secret Barrister 'Extraordinary' - Krishnan Guru-Murthy Chris Daw QC has been practising criminal law for... -
Parole Rob McKeon 9780711297289
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.37AS SEEN ON TV.'For too long, the work of the Parole Board has been shrouded in secrecy. This book provides a detailed view of how decisions are reached.'--Martin Jones CBE, HM Chief Inspector of... -
The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence by Dr Amanda Brown
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $6.85From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown In The Prison Doctor: The Final Sentence, Dr Amanda Brown reveals stories of her time spent with foreign... -
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
RRP: $28.07Booksplease Price: $21.37Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Favorite Book of the YearA Choice... -
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colourblindness by Michelle Alexander
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.06The iconic New York Times bestseller that 'struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter' (Ibram X. Kendi)Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st... -
Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition): a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $13.00NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN, JAMIE FOXX, AND BRIE LARSON. A NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, ESQUIRE, AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR. A #1 New York Times... -
Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity by Loic Wacquant
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $27.18The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation... -
Escape: The true story of the only Westerner ever to break out of Thailand's Bangkok Hilton by David McMillan 9781912049967
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Klong Prem prison, Thailand. The "Bangkok Hilton", where 600 foreigners among the 12,000 inmates of this walled prison city also wait and rot. Among the tragic, ruthless and forgotten, one man... -
Redeemable by Erwin James
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05Erwin James lost his mother when he was seven. Shipped from home to home after his father turned to alcohol and violence, he committed his first crime of breaking and entering when he was ten. His... -
Mr Nice: 21st Anniversary Edition by Howard Marks
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.6821ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man. He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary. You'll like him.During the mid 1980s Howard... -
No Friend but the Mountains: The True Story of an Illegally Imprisoned Refugee by Behrouz Boochani
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41The Award-winning International Bestselling Story of One Man's Six Year Detention in Australia 'A powerfully vivid account of the experiences of a refugee: desperation, brutality, suffering, and all... -
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $7.91'I loved this book ... a beautifully told story about how incredible women can be, and I will never forget it Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, LoveWith her career, live-in... -
Hotel K: The Shocking Inside Story of Bali's Most Notorious Jail by Kathryn Bonella
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERHotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.Welcome to Hotel Kerobokan, or Hotel K, Bali's most notorious jail. Its walls touch paradise; sparkling oceans,... -
Eye for An Eye: The Richard & Judy Winter 2024 Book Club thriller that will get everyone talking M. J. Arlidge 9781398708181
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.14OUR MOST NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS HAVE HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT. UNTIL NOW... 'Emily' is a devoted single mother. 'Jack' starts a new job in a new town. 'Russell' may be falling in love. They all share... -
Insanity: My Mad Life by Charles Bronson 9781844540303
Booksplease Price: $18.09Charles Bronson is the most feared and the most notorious convict in the prison system. Renowned for serial hostage taking and his rooftop sieges, he is a legend in his own lifetime. Yet behind the... -
I Will Never See the World Again Yasemin Congar 9781783785155
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.85'A deeply moving memoir... We owe Ahmet Altan a tremendous debt for the strength he has shown in sharing his story with us' Jon McGregor Written from the confines of a prison cell in Istanbul, one... -
Life in Strangeways: From Riots to Redemption, My Thirty-Two Years Behind Bars by Alan Lord 9781784186012
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.75A key player in the worst prison riot in British history at Strangeways Prison in April 1990, Alan Lord was always in the wrong place at the wrong time. He was drawn to trouble like water to a sponge... -
Executions: Explore 700 Years of Public Punishment in London by Jackie Keily
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.12A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions. More frequent in London than in any other city or town in Britain, these morbid spectacles... -
34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons by Jamie Morgan Kane
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $9.09In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fearing that he would be held responsible, and sensing that his wife was somehow involved, he wanted... -
The Prison Officer by Gen Glaister 9781804992784
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.81Honest, heartfelt and moving. ***** The SunThe Prison Officer challenges everything you thought you knew about people in prison.Becoming a prison officer was Gen's burning ambition despite her... -
The Lost Boyz: A Dark Side of Graffiti by Justin Rollins
RRP: $22.11Booksplease Price: $21.01For those who equate graffiti tagging with the cosy quirkiness of Banksy or the colourful artistry of wasteground murals - this book will be a real eye-opener. 'The Lost Boyz documents Justin's road... -
Investigative Psychology: Offender Profiling and the Analysis of Criminal Action David V. Canter (International Research Centre for Investigative Psychology (IRCIP), UK) 9780470023976
RRP: $58.89Booksplease Price: $55.54This ground-breaking text is the first to provide a detailed overview of Investigative Psychology, from the earliest work through to recent studies, including descriptions of previously unpublished... -
Behind these Doors: Stories of Strength, Suffering and Survival by Alex South
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.83*As heard on Radio 4's Book of the Week*'A true, compassionate and honest account of what it is to work in our prisons.' Dr Gwen Adshead, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Devil You Know'A... -
Aftermath by Preti Taneja 9781913505462
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $12.01Usman Khan was convicted of terrorism-related offences at age 20, and sent to high-security prison. He was released eight years later, and allowed to travel to London for one day, to attend an event... -
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III by Danzig Baldaev
RRP: $30.15Booksplease Price: $21.20'This is not solely an addendum to the previous volumes, but stands well on its own. The book's physical and emotional core lies in the Baldaev drawings, which are ethnographic, artistic, and... -
Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction by Dan Stone 9780198723387
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern global consciousness and identity. Although the most... -
Fifty-one Moves by Ben Ashcroft 9781904380245
Booksplease Price: $13.40It is shocking that although just one per cent of children are taken into care by local authori-ties, almost 30 per cent of prisoners have been in care. Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of... -
Newgate: London's Prototype of Hell by Stephen Halliday
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.48There have been more prisons in London than in any other European city. Of these, Newgate was the largest, most notorious and worst. Built during the twelfth century, it became a legendary place -... -
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583225813Author Angela DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint <