Twelve Years a Slave (Film Tie-in)

''I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank''s diary, only published nearly a hundred years before'' - Steve McQueen, director of the Academy Award-winning film of Solomun Northup''s powerful memoir

Solomon Northup is a free man, living in New York. Then he is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Drugged, beaten, given a new name and transported away f...