CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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SUSAN DARLINGTON recommends a gripping near-future chronicle of a city on the edge of conflict
ARTFUL ANACHRONISM: The Good Book
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
SET in Leeds “in the near future,” The Good Book tells the story of a society that's on the brink of civil war.
The first project for Slung Low’s Leeds People's Theatre, the 30-minute film continues its commitment to community engagement.
The back story, in which Queen Bear seized power a decade ago by claiming to carry the spirit of King Arthur, is told in succinct one-liners by local people.
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