Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Toronto canine drama is a dog’s dinner
Paul Simon finds Andre Alexis’s new novel a tad too frustrating
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Fifteen Dogs, by Andre Alexis (Serpent’s Tail, £7.99)
IF YOU can get past the gnomic title, the design cover reminiscent of the Ladybird series for children and the whole anthropomorphic premise of this book, then Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis is an intriguing if imperfect read.
Its opening line certainly grabs the attention: “One evening in Toronto, the gods Apollo and Hermes were at the Wheatsheaf Tavern.”
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