MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
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Best of 2018: Books
BY PETER MASON
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KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
Slaughterhouse Prayer (London Books) by John King is a really important novel, one that could and should change prevailing attitudes about how human beings treat animals.
Dark place: a US slaughterhouse (Pic: US Department of Agriculture)
Tense and all-consuming as it goes into dark places, it reminds us not only how badly and brutally we deal with our fellow creatures but also how we have the temerity to project our own worst vices on to innocent beings of other species.
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RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
GORDON PARSONS is intrigued by a biography of the Marxist intellectual and author, made from the point of view of his son
Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change