The Hate Game

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner - 2025 Independent Author Awards (Memoir & Historical Nonfiction)</strong></p><p><strong>Silver Medal - 2025 Readers' Favorite Literary Competition (Nonfiction)</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Runner-Up - 2025 London Book Festival (Memoir)</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner - 2024 Literary Titan Book Award</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>They shoved his head into the toilet-a baptism of dirty water and urine. They drew a Star of David on his forehead. And that was just another day at school.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set against the brutal corridors of 1970s England </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Hate Game: Screaming in the Silence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a raw darkly funny memoir of trauma resilience and reluctant transformation.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gary Trew didn't grow up in a warzone but Knoll Boys School came close. There violence was routine bullying was institutional and anti-Semitic torment was just part of the curriculum. Teachers turned a blind eye. Survival meant silence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But beyond the school gates? Chaos contradictions-and love. A scripture-quoting mother with a flair for curses. A pipe-smoking father who barely spoke but never stopped caring. A house full of odd rituals awkward hugs and flashes of humour in the darkness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Told with searing honesty and wicked wit </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Hate Game</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is more than a memoir of abuse-it's a story of defiance emotional survival and growing up working-class in a country that didn't care.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>If you loved <em>Educated</em> <em>A Child Called It</em> <em>Angela's Ashes</em> or <em>The Glass Castle</em> prepare to meet a voice you won't forget.</strong></p>