MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Wish you weren't here: postcards from the edge of Hull
Hull celebrates its tenure as Britain's City of Culture festival in December 2017
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
We Know What We Are
by Russ Litten
(Obliterati Press, £8.99)
MOST of the stories in Russ Litten’s new collection were written last year when Hull was City of Culture, not that its cast of marginals and black-economy misfits would have noticed the celebrations or cared that much.
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STEPHEN ARNELL looks back to when protesters took to the streets in London demand to Irish liberty, fair pay and free speech — and wonders what’s changed in 138 years
BLANE SAVAGE recommends the display of nine previously unseen works by the Glaswegian artist, novelist and playwright
