Cat O'Nine Tales

Preface

While I was incarcerated for two years, in five different prisons, I picked up several stories that were not appropriate to include in the day-to-day journals of a prison diary. These tales are marked in the contents with an asterisk.

Although all nine stories have been embellished, each is rooted in fact. In all but one, the prisoner concerned has asked me not to reveal his real name.

The other three stories included in this volume are also true, but I came across them after being released from prison: in Athens — ‘A Greek Tragedy’, in London — The Wisdom of Solomon’, and in Rome my favourite — ‘In the Eye of the Beholder’.