RICHARD MURGATROYD is intrigued by a study that asks why the ability to diagnose outstrips the ability to cure
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Crime fiction round-up: January 7, 2020
MAT COWARD reviews the latest from Christine Poulson, Mark McCrum, Mark Douglas-Home and Riku Onda
SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a sweeping survey of the world's biggest desert and the people who live there
MICHAL BONCZA highly recommends a revelatory exhibition of work by the doyen of indigenous Australians’ art, Emily Kam Kngwarray
The Bard commutes to work for the first time in 45 years
DAVID RENTON is puzzled by an ambitious attempt to look back on world culture from the future without engaging with or understanding it
GORDON PARSONS is riveted by a translation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into joyous comedy set in a southern black homestead
GEORGE FOGARTY relishes the music of black British artists that channels Carribbean, Latin and club sounds, along with contemporary west African radicalism
A LABORATORY on a tidal island off the Devon coast is doing vital research into the mechanism by which viruses can jump from one species to another in An Air That Kills by Christine Poulson (Lion Hudson, £8.99). With the next major flu pandemic widely considered inevitable, this work could potentially save millions of human lives.
But there’s a problem. For some reason, staff turnover is worryingly rapid and medical researcher and reluctant whistleblower Katie Flanagan is persuaded to go undercover at the lab. She hasn’t been there long before a tragedy occurs. Coincidence, or something more sinister?
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