The best books to read in prison
From our UK edition
Like Nicolas Sarkozy, I knew I would be a disgraced former president going to prison. Okay, as the once co-president of my hospital’s junior doctors’ mess, perhaps my comparison is a bit grand. And where Sarkozy brought only a few books with him – including Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, perhaps manifesting an early release if his appeal is successful – I was bang to rights for drugs offences, so brought a suitcase full of books into the dock for my inevitable stretch. Books and prisons have a strained relationship. I regularly get letters from people in prison complaining that their prison won't let books in for fear of spice adulteration.
