Nothing But The Truth

From the number one bestselling, award-winning Secret Barrister - an entertaining and surprising memoir about their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning reformer.

Informationen zum Autor The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law. They write for many publications and are the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken , was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and spent more than a year in the top-ten bestseller list. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies and Nothing But the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer were instant Sunday Times top-ten bestsellers on publication. Writing as S. J. Fleet, The Cut Throat Trial is their first novel. Klappentext The Sunday Times besteller*A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'*?Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails' - Telegraph__In this wonderfully honest memoir, the bestselling Secret Barrister charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar, taking in the sometimes absurd traditions of the Inns of Court and the Hunger Games-type contest for pupillage, through to the endlessly frustrating experience of being a junior barrister - as a creaking, ailing justice system begins to convince them that something has to change . . .Addressing questions such as how you become a barrister, why only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession, and why a practising barrister might come to feel the need to reveal the lies, secrets, failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns, this is the Secret Barrister at their very best.Full of hilarious, shocking and surprising stories, Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang ?em and flog ?em, austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning, bestselling, reforming author whose writing in defence of the law is celebrated around the globe.__Praise for Nothing But The Truth:'The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive' - The Times'With compassion, wit and intelligence, the Secret Barrister shows why is it that any of us plunge into the harrowing depths of criminal law' - TLS'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious' - Adam Rutherford Zusammenfassung From the number one bestselling, award-winning Secret Barrister an entertaining and surprising memoir about their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning reformer....

Autorentext
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law. They write for many publications and are the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and spent more than a year in the top-ten bestseller list. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies and Nothing But the Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer were instant Sunday Times top-ten bestsellers on publication. Writing as S. J. Fleet, The Cut Throat Trial is their first novel.

Klappentext

The Sunday Times besteller
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

?Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails' - Telegraph
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In this wonderfully honest memoir, the bestselling Secret Barrister charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar, taking in the sometimes absurd traditions of the Inns of Court and the Hunger Games-type contest for pupillage, through to the endlessly frustrating experience of being a junior barrister - as a creaking, ailing justice system begins to convince them that something has to change . . .

Addressing questions such as how you become a barrister, why only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession, and why a practising barrister might come to feel the need to reveal the lies, secrets, failures and crises at the heart of this world of wigs and gowns, this is the Secret Barrister at their very best.

Full of hilarious, shocking and surprising stories, Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang ?em and flog ?em, austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning, bestselling, reforming author whose writing in defence of the law is celebrated around the globe.
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Praise for Nothing But The Truth:

'The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive' - The Times

'With compassion, wit and intelligence, the Secret Barrister shows why is it that any of us plunge into the harrowing depths of criminal law' - TLS

'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious' - Adam Rutherford

Zusammenfassung
From the number one bestselling, award-winning Secret Barrister an entertaining and surprising memoir about their hilarious and heartbreaking journey from austerity-supporting twenty-something to campaigning reformer.