CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Offbeat collection breaks boundaries of crime fiction
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Crimewave 13: Bad Light
(TTA Press, £12)
THE dozen pieces in Crimewave 13 explore a broadly common theme — the utter blurring of the traditional boundaries between the criminal and the victim, with the trajectories and locations of each of the stories quite distinct from each other and the clever use of partial perspectives confounding the reader throughout.
Morning Star reviewer Mat Coward gives a criminal’s view of the inherent contradictions within capitalism as identified by Karl Marx’s hypothesis of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall in a story in which, alternatively menacing and cartoonish, local tough guy Top and his diminished band of hangers-on journey through an economically squeezed town to discover why their customer base no longer has the readies to pay for their product.
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