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In 2010, Julian Assange signed a contract to write a book.

The idea was to produce a book that was part memoir, part manifesto in which the controversial Assange hoped to “explain our global struggle to force a new relationship between the people and their governments”.

After more than 50 hours of taped interviews with him, discussing his work and that of WikiLeaks with the person writing the book, Assange began to doubt the veracity of sharing every detail of his personal life.

And when the first draft of the book was presented to him, he wanted to put an end to the entire exercise saying, “all memoir is prostitution”.

But the contract had been signed and Canongate went ahead with publishing the first draft of the book.

It is an interesting read and offers a glimpse of the life of a man who many world leaders would like to see annihilated.

Just knowing the controversy around the publishing of the book was enough to get me to read it. – Meneesha Govender