The Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious' – Adam RutherfordIn a diary that takes us behind the scenes of their middling ambition, Nothing But The Truth charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. By way of the painfully archaic traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, and the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage - which most don't survive - here is the brilliant reality of being a frustrated junior barrister.With a keen eye for the absurd and an obsessive fondness for Twitter, SB reveals the uncomfortable truths and darkest secrets about life in our criminal courts.‘Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times‘Written with compassion, wit and intelligence’ – TLS‘Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails' – The Telegraph
CONTRIBUTORS: The Secret BarristerEAN: 9781529057065COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Legal Education, LAW / Legal ProfessionWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
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United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Memoirs, Crime and criminology, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Criminal procedure
Entertaining and instructive . . . A gifted writer . . . The Secret Barrister's picaresque journey to barristerhood is served up with large helpings of humour, Wonderful and insightful . . . With compassion, wit and intelligence, the Secret Barrister shows why is it that any of us plunge into the harrowing depths of criminal law, Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister’s travails, As entertaining as ever in this third foray into the courtroom, Eye-opening. The candour is, at times, breathtaking . . . it is both human and urgent . . . A no-holds-barred book that tells an unvarnished story of a broken system an the people who hold it together
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. The Secret Barrister writes for many publications, including The Times, the Guardian, New Statesman, iNews, Esquire and Counsel magazine. In 2016 and 2017, the Secret Barrister was named Independent Blogger of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. In 2018, the Secret Barrister was named Legal Personality of the Year at the Law Society Awards. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and was in the top-ten bestseller list for more than a year. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018. Their second book, Fake Law, was published in 2020 and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
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The Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir Nothing But The Truth tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, campaigning, bestselling author.'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious' – Adam RutherfordIn a diary that takes us behind the scenes of their middling ambition, Nothing But The Truth charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. By way of the painfully archaic traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, and the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage - which most don't survive - here is the brilliant reality of being a frustrated junior barrister.With a keen eye for the absurd and an obsessive fondness for Twitter, SB reveals the uncomfortable truths and darkest secrets about life in our criminal courts.‘Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times‘Written with compassion, wit and intelligence’ – TLS‘Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails' – The Telegraph
CONTRIBUTORS: The Secret BarristerEAN: 9781529057065COUNTRY: United KingdomPAGES: WEIGHT: 0 gHEIGHT: 197 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Pan MacmillanDATE PUBLISHED: CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, LAW / Criminal Law / General, LAW / Legal Education, LAW / Legal ProfessionWIDTH: 130 cmSPINE:
Book Themes:
United Kingdom, Great Britain, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Memoirs, Crime and criminology, Law and society, sociology of law, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Criminal procedure
The Secret Barrister is a junior barrister specializing in criminal law, and the author of the award-winning blog of the same name. The Secret Barrister writes for many publications, including The Times, the Guardian, New Statesman, iNews, Esquire and Counsel magazine. In 2016 and 2017, the Secret Barrister was named Independent Blogger of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards. In 2018, the Secret Barrister was named Legal Personality of the Year at the Law Society Awards. Their first book, The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken, was a Sunday Times number-one bestseller and was in the top-ten bestseller list for more than a year. It won the Books Are My Bag Non-Fiction Award 2018, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year and the Specsavers Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2018. Their second book, Fake Law, was published in 2020 and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.
In Die vyf susters maak speurder Adriaan Kruger sy buiging saam met Alex Muller, ’n skryfnaam van die suksesvolle Eleanor Baker. Ek was nogal gretig om dit te lees en die hoop het glad nie beskaam nie.
Die verhaal open met ’n toneel wat die tafel dek vir ’n moordraaisel wat wil herinner aan Agatha Christie op haar beste. Daar is vyf ongetroude susters wat ’n afgesonderde lewe lei in ’n verwaarloosde huis, maar nou is die oudste van hulle “soos ’n lappop, slordig en minagtend op die vloer neergegooi” (p. 5) Rosa, die dominerende leier van die susters, het beswyk aan ’n skietwond aan die kop. Drie van die susters is oënskynlik in skok, die jongste een baie kalm.
Die ondersoek van die saak laat vir Adriaan Kruger sy loopbaankeuse betwyfel. Hy word geskets as ’n ordentlike man wat reken dat hy dalk objektiwiteit kortkom, maar tog skerper kyk as wat die susters sou vermoed. Dit word duidelik dat elkeen van die susters verdagtes kan wees, want Rosa was geensins geliefd by haar sibbe nie. Dan is daar nog verdere randkarakters wat eweneens motiewe kan hê om haar van kant te maak.
Hierdie is die eerste van vyf speurverhale wat tussen 1998 en 2003 verskyn het uit die pen van Eleanor Baker as Alex Muller. Die heruitgawe wat sopas uitgegee is deur Human & Rousseau, spog met ’n splinternuwe baadjie wat die aandag vestig op die belangrike element, naamlik die vuurwapen wat aan die speurder ’n interessante uitdaging gestel het.
Human & Rousseau is ’n druknaam van NB Uitgewers.
