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SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
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
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
RON JACOBS welcomes the translation into English of an angry cry from the place they call the periphery
GUILLERMO THOMAS recommends a useful book aimed at informing activists with local examples of solidarity in action around the world
HENRY BELL is provoked by a book that looks toward, but does not fully explore the question of who gets to imagine the shapes of cities to come
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.
Yet while that source certainly underpins the novel, Fuller is too mature and experienced a writer to recourse to slabs of context interspersed with two-dimensional characterisation and diluted narrative.
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