The Hate Game

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Winner - 2025 Independent Author Awards (Memoir & Historical Nonfiction)</strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. Violence was routine bullying was institutional and anti-Semitic torment seeped into the curriculum unchecked. Teachers turned away. Survival meant silence.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Beyond the school gates however lay a different kind of chaos-contradictory unpredictable and loving in its own crooked way. A scripture-quoting mother with a flair for curses. A pipe-smoking father who rarely spoke but always cared. A house full of odd rituals awkward warmth and flashes of humour bright enough to pierce the dark.</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 is a story of defiance emotional survival and what it meant to grow up working-class in a country that didn't care.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A compelling memoir in the tradition of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Educated</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Angela's Ashes</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Glass Castle</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p>