The Far Side of the Moon
trials of my father
$32.75
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
5 March 2025
Summary
The Unspoken Mind: A Memoir of Father, Son, and the Shadows of Mental Illness
The powerful and emotive memoir about one man’s relationship with his father and the stigma around mental illness, from the acclaimed author and human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith.
A vivid, inquiring memoir… A properly soul-searching book’ - Observer
A leading campaigner for justice, human rights lawyer Clive Stafford Smith has spent a lifetime getting to know his clients - f…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529920512 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529920515 |
| Author: | Clive Stafford Smith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 5 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 259g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
[A] vivid, inquiring memoir… In unpicking this history within himself, in what is a properly soul-searching book, Stafford Smith finds useful ways to ask the hardest of questions about crime and punishment * Observer *
About The Author
Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is a lawyer specialising in defending those accused of the most serious crimes, and is founder and Director of UK non-profit the Justice League, and formerly founded and worked at Reprieve. Based in the US for twenty-six years, he now works from the UK where he continues to defend prisoners on Death Row, and challenges the continued incarceration of those held in secret prisons around the world. He has secured the release of 85 prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and still acts for several more. His book Bad Men (shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize) described this campaign. Alongside many other awards, in 2000 he received an OBE for ‘humanitarian services’. His second book Injustice was shortlisted for the 2013 Orwell Prize and the CWA Non-Fiction Dagger.
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