MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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“We need to safeguard those who every day struggle with the right to imagination”
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
Jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins
[Michelle Ettlin]
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
“ALTHOUGH I also value the piano as a harp in a box, I love to think of it as 88 tuned drums.”
So says one of the true nonpareils of British piano jazz, Alexander Hawkins.
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