REVIEW: Daniel Holmes: A Rare Insightful Snapshot Inside Malta’s Prison
By Gabriel Schembri
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Despite not being your usual page-turner, Daniel Holmes gives readers a well-documented 8-year snapshot of life inside the notorious prison.
Writing memoirs from inside a prison is a tricky feat. It has been done thousands of times before and the author usually knows that his story is not weirder than any of his other inmates. Yet the book by Daniel Holmes, who was handed a 10-year prison sentence for drug trafficking, turned out to be good, satisfactory even.
A Memoir from Malta’s Prison by Daniel Holmes is not the usual page-turner. I did not crave some free time to sit alone with this book. And yet I somehow consumed it with impressive speed.