CATHERINE STEEL relishes a compelling novel about Augustus’s right hand man, but misses the politics, the cultural shifts, and more detail about his restoration of Rome
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Alice isn’t Happy
Michal Boncza reviews a new graphic story by Spencer Woodcock and drawn Denny Derbyshire
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
Alice isn’t Happy
by Spencer Woodcock, drawn by Denny Derbyshire
(Derbyshire and Woodcock, £10)
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