Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer

The launch of Michael Mansfield’s Memoirs (written with Yvette Vanson) took place at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on 31 August 2009 and in London on 7 September at Riverside Studios. In 2010 there will be more book signings and speaking events around the country...

Michael Mansfield QC and Yvette toured the UK appearing at over 40 venues - at all the major literary festivals, universities, conferences and to theatre audiences in Bath, Belfast, Birmingham Uni, Bristol, Cardiff Uni, Chester, Cheltenham, City Uni, Dublin, Edinburgh, Foyles, Goldsmiths, Grays Inn, Grimsby, Guildford, Haldane Society, Hammicks, Harrods, Hay, Ilkley, Keele Uni, Kent Uni, Lincoln's Inn, Liverpool, London, Manchester Uni, Middlesex, New Forest, Sheffield, Thame, Warwick...plus numerous TV appearances, radio interviews, magazine & press articles and reviews.

Talks and book signings

• Essex University, Colchester - Wednesday 10 March
22nd Annual Essex Law Lecture with Suffolk & North Essex Law Society.
Contact Gail Chapman Tel: 01206 873484 www.essex.ac.uk

• Aye Write! Glasgow Book Festival - Thursday 11 March
7.30pm - 8.30pm www.ayewrite.com

• Dillington House, Ilminster - Sunday 21 March
Dillington House, Ilminster, Somerset. TA19 9DT. Tel: 01460 258 648
dillington@somerset.gov.uk

• Bradford Monitoring Group Conference - Wednesday 24th March
Contact Salima Hafajee: 07590040668 www.monitoring-group.co.uk/yorkshireo

• Liverpool - Thursday 25 March
Writing On the Wall Conference www.writingonthewall.org.uk

• Shoreham-by-Sea - Saturday 27 March
An Audience With...
Ropetackle Centre, Little High Street, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. Tel:01273 464440 www.ropetacklecentre.co.uk

• Alnwick Playhouse - Wednesday 28 April
An Audience With...
Alnwick Playhouse, Bondgate Without, Alnwick, NE66 1PQ. Tel: 01665 510785 www.alnwickplayhouse.co.uk

• Helmsley Arts Centre - Thursday 27 May
An Audience With...
Old Meeting House, Helmsley, York YO62 5DW. Tel: 01439 771700
www.helmsleyarts.co.uk

• Hay on Wye Book Festival - Monday 31 May
www.hay-on-wye.co.uk

• Le Manoir aux Quatre Saisons, Oxford.
An Audience With..
www.blanc.co.uk

Purchase

Purchase Memoirs of a Radical Lawyer by MICHAEL MANSFIELD from Bloomsbury Publishing, Amazon and all good bookshops. The paperback version will be published on 6th September 2010.
Contact: Katie Bond 0207 494 6054; Editor, Bill Swainson 0207 494 6025
MM www.tooks.co.uk YV www.yvettevanson.com

Quotes

'A fascinating and passionate record of the author's major cases in courts, inquests and public inquiries, whose context will be as familiar to the general reader as to the lawyer, and which concerned or raised issues beyond the narrowly legal'
Spectator

'I hugely admire him ... This book is not just a show-off catalogue of his greatest hits. It is a shaming, chilling list of injustices.'
A. N. Wilson, Daily Mail

'A fascinating insight into the mind of a man who has devoted his life to securing the liberty of others ... It is in the transcripts of his cross examinations where the book really comes alive'
New Statesman

'An in-depth insight into the skills that make an outstanding barrister ... Mansfield is refreshingly lacking in pomposity - surprising in any barrister, let alone such a successful one'
Time Out

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