Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy [1990] paperback Condition:Very Good The book provides a radically

The book provides a radically new interpretation of Patrick Pearse's work in education

whose brutally stabbed body now lies face downwards in a shallow grave on a golf course

It reminded me of Leila Slimani's terrific Lullaby' Bookseller

but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks

Brendan Behan: Borstal Boy [1990] paperback Condition:Very Good The book provides a radically'I have him bitched, balloxed and bewildered, for there's a system and a science in taking the piss out of a screw and I'm a well trained man at it.' So writes Brendan Behan, poet, writer and literary legend, of the episode that coloured his life. Arrested in Liverpool as an agitator for the IRA, he was tried and sent to reform school. He was sixteen years old. The world he entered was brutal and coldly indifferent. Conditions were primitive, and