Bang to Rights

Five times in prison by the age of 27. At 30 an established writer, co-author of successful musical play, 'Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be'. Frank Norman is a phenomenon of our day, a man to watch.

In this fascinating book - his first - Norman relives his last prison sentence, two years Corrective Training - 'the difference between CT and ordinary bird is non-existent'. Savage about many things that go on in prison, scornful of do-gooders, Norman never lets his ribald humour flag.

His ear for dialogue is near miraculous. Geezers, screws, sky-pilots are all here - together with caricatures of Filthy Frank, Soapy Watson and Gum Boot.

Raymond Chandler writes in the foreword... "There is no damned literary nonsense about his writing. An observation so sharp should not be lost to the world".