Nothing But The Truth: The memoir of an unlikely lawyer

The Sunday Times bestseller

A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'

Nothing But The Truth is the Secret Barrister's hilarious, sometimes shocking and frequently surprising memoir.

'Excellent... at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister's travails.' - The Telegraph

In a diary that takes us behind the scenes of their middling ambition, it charts an outsider's progress down the winding path towards practising at the Bar. By way of the painfully archaic traditions of the Inns of Court, where every meal mandates a glass of port and a toast to the monarch, and the Hunger Games-style contest for pupillage, which most don't survive, here is the brilliant reality of being a frustrated junior criminal barrister. As the Secret Barrister transforms from a hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporting twenty-something to a celebrated campaigner with a keen eye for the absurd and an obsessive fondness for Twitter, they reveal the uncomfortable truths and darkest secrets about life in our criminal courts.

'The SB is a gifted writer. Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency... entertaining and instructive.' - The Times

'With compassion, wit and intelligence, the Secret Barrister shows why is it that any of us plunge into the harrowing depths of criminal law.' - TLS

'Masterful, compassionate and hilarious.' - Adam Rutherford