PAUL FOLEY applauds a faultless musical that tells the tragic real-life story of working-class winners of the football pools

The Bard has his football/gigging fixtures blown apart by Bert, encounters a double headed flounder, and channels his inner Anglican to hymn the praises of the RNLI

ANDY HEDGECOCK recommends a deceptively short novella that is mysteriously bigger on the inside

STEVEN ANDREW welcomes the third instalment of autobiography by a libertarian socialist whose political work is charged with Gramscian realism

PETER MASON suspends his disbelief and disappears down a rabbit hole on the London Tube

WILL PODMORE welcomes a well-written and pacey account of the run-up to the 2024 general election

PETER MASON welcomes the national tour of an irreverent show that switches the spotlight to the wives of Henry VIII