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MAT COWARD reviews the latest from Christine Poulson, Mark McCrum, Mark Douglas-Home and Riku Onda
FIONA O’CONNOR questions the achievement of this year’s Orwell prize winner for political fiction
LEO BOIX reviews two powerful Latin American novels in which myth and crime fiction expose the deadly consequences of patriarchy, clandestine abortion and state violence
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Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
ANGUS REID considers the power of the podcast as a vehicle for consensus building in opposition to mainstream media narratives
A LABORATORY on a tidal island off the Devon coast is doing vital research into the mechanism by which viruses can jump from one species to another in An Air That Kills by Christine Poulson (Lion Hudson, £8.99). With the next major flu pandemic widely considered inevitable, this work could potentially save millions of human lives.
But there’s a problem. For some reason, staff turnover is worryingly rapid and medical researcher and reluctant whistleblower Katie Flanagan is persuaded to go undercover at the lab. She hasn’t been there long before a tragedy occurs. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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