Jonathan Aitken

Porridge and Passion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this sequel to his first volume of autobiography Pride and Perjury, Aitken starts his story as he is taken down from the courtroom and incarcerated at Her Majesty's Pleasure. How this Old Etonian former Cabinet Minister on Mrs Thatcher's inner circle managed to establish new relationships and lasting friendships with fellow prisoners is fascinating - so too is this account of how religious belief transformed his life. Aitken has lost none of his charm, fluency and determination - and he has found an authentic new life which readers of this entertaining new book will be able to judge for themselves. 'A rich collection of humorous tales of prison life... Aitken seems to have found a new vocation of both a funny writer and a serious prison reformer.' Tablet

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 143mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780826480682
• ISBN-10: 0826480683
• Artikelnr.: 22046620

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Aitken is a former MP and cabinet minister. He is now an author, biographer and broadcaster. In 1995, the court found him guilty of perjury in a celebrated case against the Guardian newspaper and he spent 18 months in Belmarsh Prison. He subsequently studied theology at Oxford and in 2019, he was ordained an Anglican priest. He is now a full-time prison chaplain in London. He is the author of an award-winning biography of President Richard Nixon and has written a number of critically acclaimed books for Bloomsbury Continuum - including a bestselling life of Margaret Thatcher (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sentencing Day at the Old Bailey 2. The cage, the sweat box, the
induction 3. First days with the blaggers of Belmarsh 4. Amanuensis and
Agony Uncle 5. Carry on Fleet Street 6. An open prison run by closed minds
7. Famous Visitors 8. Drugs, Escapes, Juggings, Cell Deaths and other
Dramas 9. Carry on Fleet Street 10. The Cell Group, The Godfather and the
Baptism 11. Holding a Family Together 12. Christmas Cheer 13. The Aitken
Drugs Plot 14. Back in High Security 15. Thoughts on Prison Reform 16.
Released on a Tag 17. Adjusting to the world of freedom with old friends
and new 18. Grappling with the coils of bankruptcy 19. An undergraduate
again 20. Two years of theology and happiness at Oxford 21. meeting and
courting Elizabeth 22. Fighting for the Persecuted Church (China, Laos,
Indonesia, India, etc) 23. Prison Ministry across the world 24. Audiences
great and small (White House, Alpha) 25. Engagement and Marriage 26. A new
life