Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister's Fight for the Truth

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"Shortlisted for the 2025 BREAD & ROSES AWARD*

Can the state deliver justice when the state itself is the perpetrator?

'A fierce, uncompromising testament to love and resistance.' - Jacqueline Crooks

Christopher Alder had been left to die on the floor of Queen's Gardens police station in Hull in 1998, having been dragged unconscious and bleeding from a police van by Humberside police officers. His case would become one of the most notorious 'deaths in custody' - in the UK, involving the destruction of evidence and illegal surveillance.

Christopher's death changed the life of his sister Janet forever, as she embarked on what would become a decades-long struggle to uncover the truth and demand justice. Her campaign led to some astonishing revelations and a string of landmark rulings. Yet it also led to a covert counter-campaign against Janet personally. This culminated in allegations, from within the police force itself, that Christopher's body was secretly being used in police training exercises, for years after his death, by the very force that killed him.

In this extraordinary memoir, Janet reveals, through the story of her, Christopher, their parents and their childhood, the racism and impunity that permeates our state institutions. It is one woman's attempt to bring the accountability which the state has denied, simply by telling the truth.

'The word "defiance" encapsulates the spirit, courage and determination of Janet Alder . . . She refused to be broken, refused to be silenced and in this book, she exposes the structural racism that still lies at the core of the Britain's institutions.' - Brian Richardson, Barrister

'Impossible to put down . . . An extraordinary account and a total indictment of the policing and criminal injustice system in this country. It should be compulsory reading.' - Professor Gus John'SPARKLES LIKE UNEARTHED TREASURE' - - KALIANE BRADLEY
'A MESMERISING NOVEL' - - OBSERVER
'AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE' - - LUCY ROSE

Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Outlawed

In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has seen before: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost perfectly preserved.

Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past: the death of an Iron Age queen more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with numerous groups who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Meanwhile, underfoot, there's the land itself: the wet, teeming colony of moss has its own dark stories to tell.

As Agnes becomes tangled in controversies stirred up by her own discovery, she must face the deep history of what she has unearthed. In Bog Queen, the lives of two young women separated by many centuries become inextricably connected, as each learns to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

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Liczba stron: 464

Wymiary: 12.9x19.6

Typ okładki:miękka okładka

Tytuł:Defiance: Racial Injustice, Police Brutality, A Sister's Fight for the Truth

EAN: 9780349702865