Porridge and Passion

Jonathan Aitken was Chief Secretary to the Treasury and a Tory MP. He has published a number of books including an acclaimed life of Charles Colson, Pride and Perjury as well as two collections of hymns and prayers for Continuum.

• 1. Sentencing Day at the Old Bailey; 2. The cage, the sweat box, the induction; 3. First days with the blaggers of Belmarsh; 4. Amanuensis and Agony Uncle; 5. Carry on Fleet Street. 6. An open prison run by closed minds; 7. Famous Visitors; 8. Drugs, Escapes, Juggings, Cell Deaths and other Dramas; 9. Carry on Fleet Street; 10. The Cell Group, The Godfather and the Baptism; 11. Holding a Family Together; 12. Christmas Cheer; 13. The Aitken Drugs Plot; 14. Back in High Security; 15. Thoughts on Prison Reform; 16. Released on a Tag; 17. Adjusting to the world of freedom with old friends and new; 18. Grappling with the coils of bankruptcy; 19. An undergraduate again; 20. Two years of theology and happiness at Oxford; 21. Meeting and courting Elizabeth; 22. Fighting for the Persecuted Church (China, Laos, Indonesia, India, etc); 23. Prison Ministry across the world; 24. Audiences great and small (White House, Alpha); 25. Engagement and Marriage; 26. A new life.

"MAIL ON SUNDAY "Aitken's earlier volumes of memoirs, Pride and Perjury, which he completed a few days before entering prison, chronicled his fall from grace. It was more muddled in its intent, veering uneasily between abject penitence and furious self-righteousness. Here in this second volume, his state of mind, and therefore the tone of the book, are both clearer."