Iain S Bruce
Iain S. Bruce is a multi-award-winning journalist currently working as a senior reporter and feature writer for the Sunday Herald.
He is also a contributor to a wide variety of publications including The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times. In addition to his UK experience, he has worked with the media in mainland Europe, Scandinavia and the United States and is a regular broadcaster with the BBC. He lives in Glasgow.
Books by Iain S Bruce
CONS: Voices from the Inside
“Don’t even fucking try to imagine what the jail’s like – you’ll be wasting your time. You can get all the books and watch all the films and listen to all the shite of the day, but nothing can prepare you for the way you feel the first time they slam that cell door shut man. It’s like somebody punched you in the gut, and you’re the loneliest you’ve ever been.”
This is the true story of prison life, told in the prisoners’ own words. Drawn from the experiences of murderers, bank robbers, drug dealers and burglars, it has no agenda other than to present an authentic representation of what life is really like inside some of the UK’s toughest jails.
Taking its structure from Mark Baker’s highly acclaimed Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men and Women who Fought There, Cons is a moving and revelatory oral history, forged from interviews with dozens of inmates, that gives a voice to those that have experienced prison life. Frequently insightful, sometimes savage and often hilarious, this is the inside word on a world that most will never see.
World Rights: Mainstream