CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Boys' own story of abuse and redemption
PAUL SIMON recommends a hard-hitting novel about young people at risk
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Home Boys
by Alex Wheatle
(Arcadia Books, £7.99)
THIS modern version of a Boy’s Own Story by Alex Wheatle follows convention at one level, with its pacey narrative of four friends who abscond together from their children’s home.
Spurred on by their pledge of loyalty to each other, Bullet, Carlton, Curvis and Glenroy outwit the authorities, face some of their own fears and re-establish, even if only for a while, a measure of control over their own lives.
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