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BOOKS
BOOKS
Confessions of a Barista on Platform 1
Light, pacy and very funny, Joanna Murray's coffee-shop chronicle is a great read
21st century poetry
21st century poetry
Amazon Rainforest 2020
Marina Sanchez
FICTION
FICTION
Luckenbooth
Uniquely gripping visions of the hidden social, economic and spiritual forces at play in 20th-century Edinburgh
BOOKS
BOOKS
Engrossing memoir of US proxy war in El Salvador
JOHN GREEN recommends a first-hand account of time spent in one of the most dangerous countries on Earth
BOOKS
BOOKS
Being Human after 1492
Succinct account of colonialism’s history of blood, cruelty and greed
MUSIC
MUSIC
Album reviews
Latest releases from Tamil Rogeon, Neil Young and Dean McPhee
MUSIC
MUSIC
Spontaneous combustion
Memoirs of a great jazz drummer fizz with the sense of improvisatory freedom inherent in his music, says CHRIS SEARLE
BOOKS
BOOKS
Truth is the first casualty of war on probity in public life and politics
ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a scathing exposure of Establishment lies and deception perpetrated in the era of Boris Johnson
LITERATURE
LITERATURE
21st-century poetry
Reviews of latest collections from Alan Morrison, Kevin Higgins, Graham Fulton, RF Francis and James Womack
PICTURE THIS
PICTURE THIS
Patterns of Russia: History, Culture and Spaces
Accessible and informed insights into the ‘lands of the Rus’