From the memoir · Paul Tunstead
A taste
of the life.
The places, the people and the moments that stayed with me. A first look inside Made With Conviction: Survival Instinct.
Inside the chapters
Every title.
Another memory.
Start with these chapter introductions. Selected passages from the manuscript will be added here as the book takes shape.
Strangeways · 1990
Prologue
The day of the riot. Three days on the roof. The memoir opens at Strangeways before returning to the beginning.
Runcorn · 1987
Smashing Times
A plate-glass window, a split-second decision and the fragmented memories of what followed.
Stoke Heath · 1989
A Bully’s Bully
A new cellmate, a direct question and an understanding reached without a fight.
Hindley
Focus On The Fulcrum
A deep-red Suzuki X7 and the mechanical mind at work.
On the road
The Margins
A Rosso Red RS Turbo, friends in the car and a drive that ended with the car rolling.
The last conviction · 2004
Two Pints Of Lager and a Packet Of Mogadon
The events that brought another prison sentence — and the last conviction before Paul’s release in 2007.
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The man behind the words
Meet the Urchin.
Paul Tunstead. Runcorn beginnings, a life inside and outside prison, and a story told in his own North-West voice.
About PaulMore to come
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