CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Persuasive path to class consciousness
PAUL SIMON recommends James Clarke's novel, set in the middle of the miners' strike of 1984-5
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
The Litten Path
by James Clarke
(Salt, £9.99)
FRAMED by a sequence of betrayals, The Litten Path is a story of unequal class struggle.
The geographical co-ordinates of the novel are tightly drawn — the Yorkshire mining village of Litten, the semi-derelict Threndle House on its outskirts and the Orgreave coking plant.
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