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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Fame (sort of) at last
Morning Star columnist MAT COWARD is also a writer of mystery fiction and one of his stories has been shortlisted for the Edgar Allan Poe award. Here he ruminates on what it means to him
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
MANY things went through my mind after I heard that my short story On Borrowed Time has been been nominated for the Edgar, not least whether anyone has ever refused one.
Probably not, because it doesn’t seem like that sort of award.
But lots of people have turned down lots of honours over the years. The artist LS Lowry is thought to be the all-time British record-holder, having declined an OBE (1955), a CBE(1961), a knighthood(1968) and a Companion of Honour (1972 and 1976).
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