Frankie Owens

Photograph of author Frankie Owens

Frankie Owens is an author and literacy advocate who founded the Read and Grow Society to teach disadvantaged people to read. He is the author of ‘The Little Book of Prison’ (Waterside Press, 2012), which was a finalist for the People’s Book Prize.

Alex Alexandrowicz

Photograph of author Alex Alexandrowicz

Alex Alexandrowicz spent 22 years in some of Britain’s most notorious gaols much of this time as a Category A high security prisoner. His Prison Chronicles are a first hand account in which he explains why he believes he was wrongly convicted (a matter currently with the Criminal Cases Review Commission) and vividly recreates his experiences of the early years following his arrest.… Read more “Alex Alexandrowicz”