by Norman Parker · Blake Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781856850957
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«Parkhurst Tales» is Norman Parker's collection of stories about life in Parkhurst prison, in paperback from Blake Publishing (256 pages).
Norman Parker, a prisoner at Parkhurst (Isle of Wight), recounts British prison life between 1970 and 1990: anecdotes, portraits of fellow inmates and observations of daily life behind bars, in a tone that mixes the disturbing and the comic. Includes an introduction by Frank Delaney.
Published by Blake Publishing in March 1995 in English; the cover subtitle is «A Murderer's Life in Britain's Toughest Jail».
For readers of true crime and prison memoirs, as well as those interested in the British prison system.
Norman Parker (1944–2019) was a British author and convicted murderer. He attended St Clement Danes Grammar School in West London. After serving a six-year sentence for manslaughter, he was convicted of murder in 1970 and sentenced to life imprisonment. He served 24 years in prisons including Parkhurst. His involvement in riots, hunger strikes and escapes saw him moved from prison to prison, often spending long periods in solitary confinement.
