Praise for Try Me
Highly Dramatic Reading
"Try Me, should really be called Take No Prisoners..[A] riveting story of how a troubled child became a Chanel-clad sex-bomb socialite quasi-criminal and then a somewhat contrite mother and very promising writer. The story of this world-class drama queen makes for highly dramatic reading."
- Michael Gross, More Intelligent Life
Explosive and compelling
"this is a brilliantly written life story. Who hasn't Farah Damji met on the dark side of London glittery media life and the New York arts and fashion worlds? She doesn't pull her punches and doesn't spare herself. One of my books of the year."
- Madame Arcati, celebrity and media biz blogger
and commentator
"At last an immigrant autobiography without a mission to complain.
A fresh and fearless voice"
- Farrukh Dhondy, author of Bombay Duck and Adultery
Casually shocking.
Artfully bizarre.
" The most jaw-dropping memoir I've read since Jeffrey Archer's prison diaries"
- Guy Adams, The Independent
This book is a landmark
"An exhilarating breath of fresh air: an Indian woman who has lived, loved, f**ked and f**ked-up in spectacular fashion and has the guts and talent to write about it with honesty and style. This book is a landmark, throwing down a gauntlet that Arundhati Roy,
Kiran Desai et al would never dare pick up."
- Nirpal Dhariwal, author Tourism
Events
Beautiful Sentence: Writings from Women in Prison
Wed, April 27, 2011. 7pm
Fee: £5
Featuring poet Leah Thorn, readings from Farah Damji and Laurel (Women In Prison), and excerpts from the film 'Beautiful Sentence' by Suzanne Cohen Films
>>Read more
PAST EVENTS
'A rehabilitation revolution?' - next steps in skills and resettlement for offenders
Wednesday, 16th February 2011
VENUE:Godfrey Mitchell Theatre, One Great George Street, Westminster, London SW1P 3AA
Farah Damji is speaking on behalf of Women Moving Forward about the need to shift the tabloid perceptions of what prison is really like and addressing real-life needs so women can re-integrate successfully back into society and break the cycle of re-offending.
For more information ==> http://bit.ly/b59s5o
Time: Friday November 5th 2010
Location : CBI Conference Centre, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU,, United Kingdom
Event By: AVA Conference
More info:
Farah will be speaking on behalf of the group Women Moving Forward about what they do and what its objectives are, as a woman who has survived the criminal justice system AVA is an umbrella conference, Against Violence and Abuse and is being held all day at the CBI Conference Centre, 103 New Oxford Street, London WC1A 1DU, Friday November 5th 2010
For more information and tickets please see http://avaproject.org.uk ...
Tuesday, November 16 · 1pm - 2 pm
Location: Victoria Library 160 Buckingham Palace Road London, United Kingdom
More Info:
Farah Damji and Shaun Attwood are two people that have lived life to the extremes...and have written tell-all memoirs about their experiences. They will be talking about their books on Tuesday 16th November from 13:00 - 14:00.
Shaun Attwood
Using a golf pencil sharpened on a cell wall, Shaun Attwood wrote one of the first prison blogs, ‘Jon’s Jail Journal’. Formerly a millionaire stockbroker, Shaun’s extra-curricular activities saw him narrowly escaping a life sentence. He spent 6 years in a notorious US prison. He will be read from his fascinating memoir, Hard Times
Farah Damji
Farah's story is of a journey that starts in Africa, comes to London, travels to New York, and finds some answers in India. This is a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse at the lives of the rich and the privileged and what happens when money, sex and power just aren't enough.
"The aphorist Christopher Spranger wrote: “The author who possesses not only ideas of his own but eloquence with which to clothe and adorn them cannot avoid cutting an impudent figure in this world.” Spranger might have been describing Farah Damji when he wrote those words. For she is such an author, creative, eloquent, and most definitely impudent. And it’s the impudence that makes her memoir Try Me so delightful to read....And oh! What life she led. The kind of life only a very few women have lived. Women like Cleopatra of Egypt, the Queen of Sheba, Theodora, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. Women who had style, imagination, elan and a lust for life." - Randall Radic, retired priest and author
Read more part 1: Read more part 2