MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Stories for South Asian Super Girls by Raj Kaur Khaira
Inspirational biographies of trailblazing south Asian women
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
THIS unusual book is aimed at children but its single-page biographies of 60 amazing women from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Bhutan will fascinate older readers too.
Its stated intent is to give south Asian girls the chance to dream about lives for themselves that are massively different from the often limited ambitions of parents, families and their culture.
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