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Even The Rain (15)

Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'

The Fall

Will Stone was left pondering an incoherent outing

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

A lively production imbued with politics

Books

Salud!

Tuesday 08 May 2012

This comprehensive account of the British contribution to the medical services in republican Spain from 1936 to 1939 will surely take its place as the key work of reference on the British Medical Unit during the Spanish civil war.

Is China Buying The World?

Tuesday 01 May 2012

Peter Nolan punctures the myth posed in this book’s title that China is “buying the world.”

Dispatches From The Dark Side

Tuesday 01 May 2012

We exist in a most secretive “democracy,” one that would have us believe it is open, humane and with a respect for international law.
Yet in this book of essays on torture and the death of democracy Gareth Peirce shatters any misconceptions we may have that we live in a liberal country.

The Road To Wigan Pier Revisited

Tuesday 01 May 2012

It's 75 years since George Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier appeared and to mark the anniversary Stephen Armstrong has retraced Orwell’s route through northern England.

Short story: Revenge

Tuesday 24 April 2012

The boy was coming from the river. Barefoot, with his trousers rolled up above his knees, his legs covered in mud.

The Lives Of Things

Tuesday 24 April 2012

When he died in 2010 the communist writer Jose Saramago was regarded as one of the giants of European literature.

Crime fiction round-up: Bother in the Bath bailiwick

Monday 23 April 2012

Noah Hawley's The Good Father (Hodder, £12.99) is the second book in a few months in which a middle-class US dad tries to cope with his son's arrest for an infamous murder.

Other Lives But Mine

Wednesday 18 April 2012

At the core of Emmanuel Carrere's novel is the premise that from observing and experiencing the horrors and difficulties of others' lives we can both better appreciate our own existence and what we have in common with others.

London Recruits

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Think back to the depressing days of apartheid South Africa in the mid-1960s, after the political and military vanguard of the liberation movement had been sentenced to decades in jail.

London Peculiar

Tuesday 17 April 2012

Michael Moorcock is a colossus, evidenced in this collection of his non-fiction reviews, diary entries, memories and ephemera stretching across half a century.