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Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us
Moving story of one individual enmeshed in Algeria’s war of independence
Book cover set against the iconic image from Gillo Pontecorvo's film Battle of Algiers
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
THIS austere, spare but also deeply affecting novella by Joseph Andras explores the backstory and interior life of Fernand Iveton.
Iveton was the only pied noir, those of French descent but living in the then colony of Algeria, who was executed in 1957 by the French authorities during the prolonged war of independence.
The work starts with the bungled attempt by Iveton and his cell to detonate a bomb in a factory.
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