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Engaging insights into the life and times of a radical actor and activist
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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
A Working Diary
by Julie Hesmondhalgh
(Methuen Drama, £18.99)
THIS book is actor, broadcaster and political activist Julie Hesmondhalgh’s account of 12 months in her working life.
And what a year it turned out to be. It starts in November 2016 and in the following period, Donald Trump captured the White House and, confounding all the pundits, there was a general election which we were told would consign Jeremy Corbyn to oblivion.
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