CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Love and Labour: Red Button Years Volume I by Ken Fuller
Inspirations of working-class struggle gets a compelling combination of fact and fiction from Ken Fuller
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
AT FIRST glance, Ken Fuller’s Love and Labour, weighing in at almost 600 pages, seems too much.
The worried reader, possibly intimidated by its length, might also be concerned that the primary source material is none other than the author’s own magisterial non-fiction study Radical Aristocrats: London Busworkers from the 1880s to the 1980s.
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