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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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
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
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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