CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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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
IT’S getting biblical, isn’t it? Floods, pandemics, a plague of locusts in Africa. Never in my lifetime has the news been so unremittingly bleak and a diagnosis of a long-term lung problem caused by other people’s cigarette smoke over 40 years of gigs doesn’t improve the mood.
Still, I remain absolutely undaunted, as per the title of my last poetry book, and had a thoroughly enjoyable weekend in Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago with four gigs in three days, sandwiched around a much-needed point for the Seagulls at Sheffield United.
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