Knife is a love-letter to this essential culinary tool
- its form, history & creation.
The knife can be the most functional
... Sam J. Butterbiggins' only ambition is to be a Very Noble Knight, but he has a problem
- he's been packed off to the castle
Drug addiction. Criminal behaviour. Murder... & all before his sixteenth birthday. From foster home to children's home to living rough on the streets, Cain never had a normal childhood. By the age of 8 he was carrying a knife. Seven years later he was serving time for killing someone. Based on real events, ex-prison officer Ronnie Thompson tells Cain's shocking story & reveals what really happens to teenage offenders both on the streets & once they're behind bars. Prison riots, assaults on officers, roof-top protests & brutal acts of violence
- this is an inside account of life in a young offender's institute & of an angry young man spiralling dangerously out of control.