CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Small Acts of Courage by Sue McCormick
Timely reminder of the power of individual and collective action to bring about positive change
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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
IT MIGHT be easy to lose hope after the Brexit referendum, Labour’s election defeat and the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic but not so with Sue McCormick’s debut novel.
A bite-size introduction to some of the last century’s radical history, it places friendship at its core as it interweaves the lives of four women.
Daisy is an illiterate music hall performer in Edwardian London and Nora a millworker from Salford who nurses at
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