CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Moving tribute to two of WWI's greatest poets
Subtle: Owain Glynn and Daniel Llewelyn Williams
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
Not About Heroes
Wilton’s, London
NEARING the end of a long national tour, this retelling of Stephen MacDonald’s play about the real-life friendship between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of the most celebrated poets of the first world war, is a moving way to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of that terrible conflict.
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