DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Reviews of Good Neighbours by Sarah Langan, The Basel Killings by Hansjorg Schneider, The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix and The Crooked Shore by Martin Edwards
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
SUBURBS in US fiction are often sinister places, but few more so than that at the centre of Sarah Langan’s Good Neighbours (Titan, £8.99).
Maple Street is an aspirational satellite of Long Island, and the Wilde family don’t fit in there and know it. Their accents strike their new neighbours as plebeian, their habits unsettling and their children undisciplined.
But that might not be enough on its own to cause a season of spiralling mayhem if it wasn’t for the sinkhole that opens up in the neighbourhood one dry summer.
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