The Hate Game: Screaming in the Silence - A Memoir

By: Trew, Gary

Winner - 2025 Independent Author Awards (Memoir & Historical Nonfiction)

Silver Medal - 2025 Readers' Favorite Literary Competition (Nonfiction)

Runner-Up - 2025 London Book Festival (Memoir)

Winner - 2024 Literary Titan Book Award

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.

Set against the brutal corridors of 1970s England, The Hate Game: Screaming in the Silence is a raw, darkly funny memoir of trauma, resilience, and reluctant transformation.

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.

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.

Told with searing honesty and wicked wit, The Hate Game 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.

A compelling memoir in the tradition of Educated, Angela's Ashes, and The Glass Castle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1738245411
• ISBN13: 9781738245413
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Gary Trew
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"