TONY BURKE plots the career of the legendary Senegalese band from Dakar nightclubs to Glastonbury
Latest editorial
Crime fiction round-up
Reviews of The Oxford Brotherhood by Guillermo Martinez, Repentance by Eloisa Diaz, Powder Smoke by Andrew Martin and Shadow of a Doubt by Michelle Davies
RITA DI SANTO contemplates two films about journalism that opened this year’s festival
GEOFF BOTTOMS applauds a world-class production King Lear that pits late feudalism against a rising bourgeoisie
MARY CONWAY keeps up with the sheer pace of a drama about the terrible gap between sanitised reporting and real-life turmoil of race and gender
New releases from Brian Fallon, Antony Szmierek and Hollow Hand
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes a revival of Reginald Rose’s classic play that reminds us of the fundamental need for trials with juries
IN THE OXFORD BROTHERHOOD by Guillermo Martinez (Little Brown, £16.99) “G,” an Argentinian mathematics student in Oxford in 1994, is drawn into a deadly mystery through his mentor’s involvement in an academic society of Lewis Carroll admirers.
A young researcher claims to have made an astonishing discovery concerning one of the great mysteries of Carroll’s life. It’s the question which has overshadowed study of the author of the Alice books since the 1950s — the nature of his relationship with little girls, which to modern sensibilities is highly troubling.
When the researcher almost dies in a suspicious accident, G must uncover the truth of puzzles old and new to prevent further bloodshed.
Similar stories
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
Monster profits on the Tube, paternal dilemmas for time travellers, and an alien abduction buddy saga
Conman conned in a twisty thriller, blind trust tested to the limit, cunning murder methods, and tip-top police procedural
CHRIS MOSS joins the hunt in Argentina for the works of Poland’s most enigmatic exile