MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Round-up 2016: Gardening with Mat Coward
Star critics run through what’s impressed them this year
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
THERE’S always something new, something I’ve never heard of before. My Tiny Garden by Lucy Anna Scott with Lucy Conochie (Pavilion, £14.99) shows us how to make a mobile bog garden from a wheelbarrow and a bag of gravel.
I think that’s brilliant. It’ll cost little — or nothing, if you manage to scrounge the ingredients from skips or Freecycle — it’ll give great pleasure and when you move you can take it with you.
Alongside such projects, this book is full of case histories of people in towns and cities around the world who are determined to enjoy some gardening, despite having little or no space in which to do it.
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