MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Dubious dispatches from ‘our woman in Havana’
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
Our Woman in Havana: Reporting from Castro’s Cuba
by Sarah Rainsford
(Oneworld Publications, £18.99)
KNOWN as “Our woman in Havana,” Sarah Rainsford was the BBC’s correspondent in Cuba from 2011-14 and the title of her book feels like a throwback to a time when Britain was a world power that needed to send out foreign correspondents like missionaries — an irony probably not lost on Raul Castro as he did not grant her an interview during her tenure.
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