CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Courageous investigation of working-class racism
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Angry White People: Coming Face-to-face With The British Far Right
by Hsiao-Hung Pai
(Zed Books, £12.99)
HSIAO-HUNG PAI is gaining a well-deserved reputation for in-depth investigations into the lives of those most affected by the growing inequalities inherent in monopoly finance capitalism.
She has thrown a harsh light on the treatment of groups such as undocumented Chinese labourers and, through working undercover in a brothel, the mistreatment and exploitation of sex workers.
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