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Emma Lee - A Shiver of Rain
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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
A Shiver of Rain
Emma Lee
On the 4th August 1972, Idi Amin announced that he had asked the British government to take back responsibility for British citizens of Asian origin, whom he accused of sabotaging Uganda's economy, giving them 90 days to leave the country
Why was I shivering?
I was eighteen. It was damp in Stansted.
I was ushered onto a coach for Leicester.
Was it always going to be cold here?
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