Glasgow gangster turned writer Jimmy Boyle: ‘I would be dead now without books'

The convicted murderer set the standard for prison writing with "A Sense of Freedom" in 1977. As it is republished, he talks about honour, violence and redemption as a novelist and sculptor.
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