CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Crime fiction round-up with Mat Coward: May 6, 2022
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
OWEN and Luna met as students at a liberal arts college in the Hudson Valley, New York, in The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz (Titan, £8.99), and despite or because of their obvious incompatibility became instant best friends for life.
Years later, their relationship puzzles everyone who meets them. They’ve never been lovers; they seem somehow much closer than that. Though they’re both married to other people, their own alliance is clearly still the main one in their lives.
Is this anyone else’s business? Well, it is if you’re a homicide detective and someone close to Luna and Owen has just died, and you learn that this isn’t the first time that’s happened.
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