CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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The Levels by Helen Pendry
Structural and political violence of the arms industry unmasked in gripping crime fiction
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
by Liz Jones
THE MID WALES town of Pont Rhith, surrounded by mountains, fields and forests, may appear an ideal destination for holidaymakers.
But its beauty is deceptive. Lying as it does beneath a military training flight path, the town and the valley are plagued with low-flying jets and, more recently, military drones. When one of the drones crashes into a holiday park, killing a local woman, everyone views it as a tragic accident.
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