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Stones of Law and a Square of HEDON SKY
By Dina Murphy and Stephen Wade
A fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of prisons
Dina Murphy and Stephen Wade take you inside the walls of HMPs Hull, The Wolds and Everthorpe to reveal the infamous criminals - from Charles Peace to Charles Bronson, the executions, the spectral visitors and life inside a Victorian prison as well as in-depth interviews with two serving officers and the positive initiatives being pioneered to help offenders turn their lives around.
Price £4.95 ISBN: 978-1-905373-31-4
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SEEDS OF FORGIVENESS
Poems by Prisoners in HMP Downview
Prisoners reflect upon the issue of forgiveness and write about their experiences and feelings following a two-week event called Seeds of Forgiveness. Prisoners, prison staff and visitors were invited to hear inspirational speakers talking about how they forgave those who inflicted terrible pain on them and their loved ones through murder, rape or abuse.
Price £5.00 ISBN: 978-1-905373-28-4
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HORIZON OF FAITH
Writing by prisoners and staff, HMP Wormwood Scrubs
An anthology of writing in which prisoners of faith and no faith find spiritual and emotional connections through the written word.
“The success road is what I want
And nothing more,
Only success will change the struggle
And pain I’ve felt and I saw.”
- James
Price £5.00 ISBN: 978-1-905373-27-7
All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Action for Prisoners’ Families
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OUTSIDE IN
New Art & Writing from HMYOI Portland and Bryanston School
What happens when you bring two institutions together – a young offenders’ prison and a private school?
This fascinating anthology explores the dynamic interchange between two cultures in art, prose and poetry.
Price £4.95 ISBN: 978-1-905373-26-0
All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to Action for Prisoners’ Families
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WE BLACK MEN OF ENGLAND
New Writing from HMYOI Portland
The young men who have contributed to this remarkable anthology of poetry and prose are drawn essentially from the sizeable number of black and minority ethnic offenders at the prison. Their work reveals sharp insights into their background, imprisonment, and most of all, hopes for their future.
Price £4.95 ISBN: 978-1-905373-22-2
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SONGBIRDS ON THE RAZORWIRE
Poems from inside HMP/YOI Peterborough
This book is full of insights into those aspects of life we often take for granted. The poems, written by offenders at HMP/YOI Peterborough, offer reflective and sometimes startlingly honest accounts of lives, loves, losses, regrets and, above all, hope rejuvenated.
Price £6.00 ISBN: 978-1-905373-24-6
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FREE WITH WORDS
Writers in Prison
“The arts encourage growth and development; without them we are simply nurturing generation after generation of angry, immature, out-of-tune and out-of-time anti-social Rip Van Winkles to be released back into our communities. Better that we help to open up the prisoner’s closed and narrow world through the only legal means of escape available in prison, and make them free with words. Read this book and you’ll see what I mean.”
Clive Hopwood Director, Writers in Prison Network.
Price £7.50 ISBN: 1-874600-76-7 |
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HOLME AND AWAY
Poet Andy Croft worked as writer-in-residence at HMP Holme House between 2000 and 2003. This book represents just a fraction of the poems and stories he read while he was there.
“Writing makes us human. And you don’t have to be able to write in order to write.”
Price £4.50 ISBN: 1-874600-96-1
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HOUSE OF CARE
A History of Northallerton Prison
By Stephen Wade
There has been a prison in Northallerton since 1783. House of Care tells the story of how the modern prison emerged from a House of Correction, a Victorian gaol and a military detention centre.
Price £7.50 ISBN: 1-905373-20-1
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JOURNEYS INSIDE OUT
A poignant collection of prose by women in HMP Holloway. Most of the writers have written from personal experience and ranges from the funny and witty to harsh realism, from the lightly erotic to the totally fantastical.
Price £2.99 ISBN: 0-9543559-0-3
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MARKED MEN
Stories and pictures from the inside
Tatoos and the stories behind them. The tattoos in this book are inseparable from the experience of the bodies they adorn. They reveal the shape of the lives of men marked by crime, drugs, love, violence, friendship and imprisonment.
Price £8.99 ISBN: 1-874600-40-6
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NEVER ENDING SENTENCE
“We hope that this book helps you the same way it’s helped us, like reading, writing, spelling, and most of all, team work with others.”
Price £5.00 ISBN: 978-1-905373-16-
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THE PRISONERS
“Our names are Duncan, Gary, Steve and Chris. Between us we’ve done 28 years in jail and we wrote this book for you. If you want to read something interesting, carry on. If you don’t, fuck off and let someone else read it.”
Price £5.00 ISBN: 0-9543559-1-1
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THE TIGER BENEATH
“Thoughts and ideas long imprisoned” writes one of the authors in this refreshing anthology of prose and poetry from three London prisons. There are, of course, vivid pieces drawn from personal experience about crime, courts and imprisonment, but the writing also includes pictures from another life, flights of fancy and stories from exotic locations.
Price £2.99 ISBN: 1-874600-87-2
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THE TRIBE
Can you save The Tribe from the evil Organisation? Readers embark on an exciting journey taking them and the other characters back and forward through the book.
Price £5.00 ISBN: 0-9543559-2-X
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THESE WORDS, THESE PICTURES
A celebration of Art and Poetry
The latest annual production of work from prisoners at High Down. This is a work of tremendous quality, much of it given life by the shock and pain of imprisonment.
Any profits from this book will be donated to Victim Support.
Price £5.00 ISBN: 978-0-9552308-1-3
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STORIES CONNECT
Changing Lives Through Stories
Mary Stephenson
Stories change lives. This innovative reading programme has been especially designed for work with offenders and research has shown that it radically reduces reoffending.
This handbook is a comprehensive guide to running the programme, complete with detailed guidelines on setting up a group, costings, running sessions, icebreakers, and games, suggested texts, sample lesson plans, photocopiable resources and a full contacts list.
Price £9.95 ISBN: 978-1-905373-15-4
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