The Sunday Times besteller A BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘ ‘Excellent . . . at once a vicious polemic, a helpful primer and a cringe-inducing account of one barrister’s travails’ – The Telegraph Nothing But The Truth is the Secret Barrister’s hilarious, sometimes shocking and frequently surprising memoir. 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 SB 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. _____ ‘Words tumble out with extraordinary fluency . . . entertaining and instructive’ – The Times ‘Written with compassion, wit and intelligence’ – TLS ‘Masterful, compassionate and hilarious’ – Adam Rutherford