The second book I read was a memoir called Reading the Leader in Tehran. It's quite a bold indictment of the brutal tactics that the Islamist regime uses to coerce its prisoners into confessions. White Torture describes when prisoners are locked in soundproof small cells with no stimulation and very ad hoc human contact. The last book I read on quite a different note is an anthology of poetry called Sin by a woman called Farag Vagzad. She had a short life, she died at the age of 32 in a car crash but in that time produced a series of poetry collections that are widely read in Iran and the diaspora abroad.