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  • Published: 20 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473574175
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 18 min
  • Narrators: Carl Cattermole, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski, Lisa Selby, Adam Gallagher

Prison: A Survival Guide




An ex-prisoner's essential guide to what you can expect on the inside if you serve time, originally self-published with over 300,000 downloads, now fully revised and updated.

Penguin presents the audio edition of Prison: A Survival Guide, written by Carl Cattermole. Read by Carl Cattermole, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski, Lisa Selby and Adam Gallagher.

The cult guide to UK prisons by Carl Cattermole – now fully updated and featuring contributions from female and LGBTQI prisoners, as well as from family on the outside.

Contains:
Blood – but not as much as you might imagine
Sweat – and the prisons no longer provide soap
Tears – because prison has created a mental health crisis
Humanity – and how to stop the institution destroying it

Featuring contributors Sarah Jake Baker, Jon Gulliver, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski and Lisa Selby.

‘Essential reading’
Will Self

‘We’re in the justice dark ages and Cattermole’s great book switches on the lights’
Dr Theo Kindynis, Lecturer in Criminology Goldsmiths, University of London

‘It has the potential to change a lot of people’s lives for the better’
Daniel Godden, Partner at Berkeley Square Solicitors’

  • Published: 20 June 2019
  • ISBN: 9781473574175
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • Length: 5 hr 18 min
  • Narrators: Carl Cattermole, Darcey Hartley, Julia Howard, Elliot Murawski, Lisa Selby, Adam Gallagher

About the author

Carl Cattermole

Carl Cattermole is a an award winning journalist, activist and author of the cult guide to UK prisons, now published by Penguin.