MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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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
IN MYCROFT and Sherlock (Titan, £17.99) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, rising star at the War Office Mycroft Holmes has no interest in the macabre murders taking place in London in 1872.
The victims are Chinese, so no doubt the killings have something to do with the opium trade — a distasteful business, to be sure, but one that is necessary to protect and promote Britain's interests as a trading power.
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