WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
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
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
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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