WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Man on Edge by Humphrey Hawksley
Flaccid fiction mars atmospheric elan of stock-in-trade spy thriller
PLACE MAN: Humphrey Hawksley
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
SINCE leaving his job as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, Humphrey Hawksley has put his accumulated knowledge to good use in writing some reasonably insightful accounts of the negative globalised impact of Western liberal democracy.
By contrast, his fictional output is unlikely to cause his ex-bosses at the Establishment broadcaster much concern.
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