MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Reviews of The Oxford Brotherhood by Guillermo Martinez, Repentance by Eloisa Diaz, Powder Smoke by Andrew Martin and Shadow of a Doubt by Michelle Davies
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
IN THE OXFORD BROTHERHOOD by Guillermo Martinez (Little Brown, £16.99) “G,” an Argentinian mathematics student in Oxford in 1994, is drawn into a deadly mystery through his mentor’s involvement in an academic society of Lewis Carroll admirers.
A young researcher claims to have made an astonishing discovery concerning one of the great mysteries of Carroll’s life. It’s the question which has overshadowed study of the author of the Alice books since the 1950s — the nature of his relationship with little girls, which to modern sensibilities is highly troubling.
When the researcher almost dies in a suspicious accident, G must uncover the truth of puzzles old and new to prevent further bloodshed.
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