DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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An engagingly candid narrative that can be both edifying and depressing
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
Confessions Of A Non-Violent Revolutionary: Bean Stew, Blisters, Blockades and Benders
by Chris Savoury
Clairview Books £12.99
CONFESSIONS of a Non-violent Revolutionary is a political memoir that manages to cover all bases in that it is gentle, honest, funny, sad and inspiring.
Determined to fight for a peaceful, socially just and ecologically sustainable society, Chris Savoury dropped out of Oxford University in the early ’80s and embarked upon a journey that was to see him living on peace camps, experimenting in communal living and organic allotments, touring in mining communities as part of an agitprop theatre group and working in a radical bookshop.
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