MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich
Anguished testimonies of children who survived the nazi onslaught on the USSR
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
PUBLISHED in 1985 in the Soviet Union, this first English edition of Svetlana Alexievich’s book is a very painful reminder of the affects of war.
In the 1970s, she started interviewing the generation of children who had lived through WWII and who had carried that trauma with them as adults.
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