CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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An engaging albeit thoroughly disturbing read
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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Nowhere Man
By Kamala Markandaya
(Small Axes,an imprint of HopeRod, £10.99)
Described as “A book for our times written half a century ago,” this is a remarkable story that resonates only too clearly in the hostile climate of contemporary Britain.
This is an engaging — albeit thoroughly disturbing — read for the holiday season.
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