Wat doe je als je wordt beschuldigd van poging tot doodslag? Je vindt een aanklacht in je bus. Naar de politie gaan en uitleggen dat je het niet gedaan hebt? Of zwijgen en een advocaat inschakelen? Dit dilemma vormt de kern van Arthur’s persoonlijke verhaal: een aangrijpende en onthullende blik achter de schermen van ons strafrecht.

Zijn reis begint bij zijn vader, die als kind het Jappenkamp Si Rengo Rengo overleeft. Wat zijn vader ooit overeind hield, maakt hem later tot een man die ander...

Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him.

His fame rests on his triumphant success in building up for himself so vast an empire, and the admiration ...

St. Frideswyde's was a conventual Church, with a Priory attached, and both were burnt down in 1002, but rebuilt by Ethelred. How much of his handiwork survives in the present structure it is not easy to de-termine; but the Norman builders of the twelfth century effected, at any rate, such a transformation that no suggestion of Saxon architecture is obtruded.

Their work went on for some twenty years, under the supervision of the then Prior, Robert of Cricklade, and the Church was consecrated a...