By Charles Bronson and Stephen Richards. Bronson's very own Autobiography by his own sweet hand, all Stephen had to do was dot the I's and cross the T's.  Penned by him originally in manuscript form it tells you the real story, beware of imitations. 

Never mind that guy Silverstein over in the USA, Bronson has done more time in lockup than a genie in a bottle - 23 years up to now out of my 26 years served.  His story will rock and shock you till it hurts.  He's had more cold steel in him filled with the liquid cosh than any of these geezers from the Gulf war and he's had  more hostages than that Saddam Insane bloke. 

Read of Bronson's many beatings from screws, days left in body belts, weeks in the strong box, years in solitary confinement, years in mental institutes, his short stints of freedom and much more. If the facts of his life don't bring a lump to your throat something is a miss. Dave Courtney does the foreword.  Serialized for six days in a national newspaper, reviewed in Front magazine and loads of other newspapers. 248 pages filled with excitement, 16 pages of belting good photo's (some you will laugh at), Hardback, priced at £15.99

He's taken more hostages inside of prison than any UK prisoner. He holds awards for his art and writing. He's had more prison rooftop protests than anyone alive or dead. He's the UK's most feared yet most misunderstood prisoner. In Bronson's own words, find out what makes him tick and explode. 

It seemed I didn’t have much luck with schools because as far as I can recall I was kicked out of most of the schools I went to. Maybe if I told you that my nickname was ‘Crusher’ then it might give you an idea why I was expelled so much. I used to get a hold of the teachers and squeeze them in a friendly bear hug, but I don’t think I really knew my own strength. I was always a physical person and didn’t let anyone take liberties with me, although some tried. I remember my first taste of being on the wrong end of violence was when a teacher gave me something that was commonly called ‘six of the best’. It left welts on my body did this six of the best; this didn’t take long to arouse my anger. I gave him a bunch of fives in return and knocked him clean out, he deserved it for being a pervo and it’s something that still comes to haunt me even to this day. Other kids would have forgotten the hidings they had taken at school and how some teachers would throw the blackboard duster smack bang straight into the middle of your head, simply because it was so long ago – not me though. For me, every time I get into a scrap with prison warders, it all comes rushing back. I admit that I do have a good memory and no matter what it takes I’ll get my own back. I’ve waited for years just to get the last laugh, but not over silly things as if that was the case I just wouldn’t get to have peace.

‘Don’t let the buggers get you down’ was an inscription on some big knob’s watch given to him by an MP pal. I should have had that tattooed into my forehead so I could see it whenever I get the rare opportunity to look into a mirror. Because every time ‘they’ get me down, they start to jump all over me, like what happened at the Scrubs (Wormwood Scrubs prison), more about that later though. It’s during that type of one sided confrontation when they outnumber me by ten to one and all of them are tooled up that I recall that teacher laying into me with that leather strap. It’s that what gives me the fight to go on, because they are all bullies and all bullies should be chinned good and proper, but bullies’ minds don’t work like normal people’s, they know how to keep themselves out of harms way; ‘cut and run’ is their way. 

Icknield High at Riddy Lane in Luton was the first school I got kicked out of and then Challney High School for Boys, it just went on and on, it wasn’t that I wanted it to be that way, ‘cos I was always one for searching out answers. My bedroom walls were covered in Dracula, Frankenstein and Rocky Marciano posters. No different to kids nowadays having posters of ‘Pulp Fiction’ or ‘Reservoir Dogs’ up on their walls along with the ‘Spice Girls’ and ‘Mike Tyson’. My hobbies were very limited, there weren’t such things as ‘Nintendo’ or ‘Game Boy’ computer games around then; it was either a skipping rope or a hoopla hoop, but them things weren’t for the likes of me. I preferred collecting spiders and shoplifting, but not necessarily in that order and that made up a typical lad in them days. Every kid goes through some sort of psychological change and scares the hell out of their parents; there’s nobody I know what can say that their childhood was all strawberries and cream. Some kids shake off their tags, mine’s just got that little bit bigger every time I’m in the news. 

I was in the cubs and then progressed to the Boy Scouts, it was all the rage then and the fun of being by the campsite fire singing along with all the other boys made it seem as if though we were all special. Boys clubs were common and they led onto boxing clubs, where’ve they all gone, does anyone really care? You have the likes of these world champ boxers putting money into clubs to keep them going or opening a new one. These men know that if the kids aren’t kept off the streets then they’re likely to end up in trouble, because that’s the only choice they had, not many go on to become world champs.