The damage done : twelve years of hell in a Bangkok prison

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison - better known as the Bangkok Hilton.

It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutritious food, where prison guards laugh as they deliver pulverising blows and where the worst punishment is the khun deo - solitary confinement, Thai style.

The Damage Done is one man's story of an unthinkable nightmare.

It is not Warren Fellows' plea for forgiveness nor his denial of guilt, but a story of endurance and survival and the abuse of human rights during the decade of a life wasted in leg irons.

It is an essential read: hearbreaking, fascinating and impossible to put down.