@AndyWPhilosophy
Author of THE LIFE INSIDE (Picador 2022). Executive Producer of WAITING FOR THE OUT (BBC ONE 2026).
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ The Guardian
★★★★★ The Times
★★★★★ The Times
★★★★★ Radio Times
★★★★★ Radio Times
★★★★ FT
★★★★ FT
Interview: The Telegraph
Interview: The Telegraph
With his memoir adapted into a drama for BBC One, writer Andy West revisits a life shaped by penitentiaries
Best books of 2022: The i Paper
Best books of 2022: The i Paper
Books have the power to change the way we see the world. Anna Bonet selects this year's mind-expanding must-reads
Best books of 2022: The Irish Times
Best books of 2022: The Irish Times
Best Books of 2022: Five Books
Best Books of 2022: Five Books
The best philosophy books published in 2022, as recommended by our philosophy editor and the creator of Philosophy Bites, Nigel Warburton
Review: TLS
Review: TLS
Review: New Humanist
Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen - BBC Radio 4
Word of Mouth with Michael Rosen - BBC Radio 4
Interview: Pen America Podcast
Interview: Pen America Podcast
Works of Justice is an online literary series and podcast from PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing that explores the relationship between writing and incarceration, and challenges current conversations about criminal justice in the United States.
Interview: The Philosophers Zone, ABC Radio
Interview: The Philosophers Zone, ABC Radio
What does it mean to study and teach philosophy in prison? Andy West has been teaching philosophy in prisons since 2015, and his memoir The Life Inside is a fascinating account of this experience - as well as a reflection on inherited trauma and the fact that his father, uncle and brother all spent time behind bars.
Conversation with Nigel Warburton: Best five philosophical books about prison
Conversation with Nigel Warburton: Best five philosophical books about prison
Essay: Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Ethics of Ambiguity’ in Prison
Essay: Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘Ethics of Ambiguity’ in Prison
We are suspended between the inescapable facts of our lives and what we do to contest them, nowhere more than in prison
Essay: Why I No Longer Read Heavy Books
Essay: Why I No Longer Read Heavy Books
We went to bookshops. She stood in front of the shelves and critiqued novels. I just listened. Often I couldn't work out from what she said whether she thought the book was good or bad. She sounded just as clever when she was talking about books she disliked as books she liked. When I worked it out, I bought the books she approved of. I took them home and tried to make them look well-thumbed. In the mornings, I opened the books to the centre pages, and left them face down on my bedroom floor among stray socks and empty crisp packets, so that by the evening when I was home the spine was creased. I started carrying these books around in my hand with me when I left the house, especially when I would meet Jess. We would be walking down the high-street together and I would catch a glimpse of us reflected back in the windows of shops. I saw myself, Jess in one hand and a worn paperback in the other, and I liked what I saw. By Andy West.
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