A Prison Diary Volume I

Day 1 ‘ You are sentenced to four years. ‘ Mr Justice Potts stares down from the bench, unable to hide his delight. He orders me to be taken down. On 19 July 2001 Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury after a high-profile court case. In this, the first of three volumes of his prison diaries, Archer tells what happened during the pivotal first twenty-two days he spent inside high-security HMP Belmarsh. Told in his own words and with his customary razor-sharp writing style, Jeffrey Archer gives us a devastating insight into the UK ‘ s blighted penal system and the personal hell into which he entered. Praise for THE PRISON DIARIES ‘ Gruesome, touching, sharply written . . . they are the best thing Archer has written in years ‘ Sunday Telegraph ‘ Archer raises these diaries to be standards of a prison Pepys by being such an assiduous recorder of fellow inmates ‘ Mail on Sunday ‘ The finest thing that he has ever written . . . Riveting ‘ Independent on Sunday