MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Crime fiction with Mat Coward: July 26, 2023
Take your pick from bent Tories, tragic coming-of-age, strings-attached charity, and a classic bonkers thriller
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
THE most blatantly corrupt government in British history has been something of a godsend to thriller writers over the last few years.
The bent Tory at the centre of THE FALLEN by John Sutherland (Orion, £18.99) is the new policing minister, who’s widely tripped as the next party leader. His great crusade is the privatisation of the police — a “reform” worth tens of millions to people close to him.
Police negotiator, Superintendent Alex Lewis gets involved when he talks a distressed young woman down from a bridge in London.
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