MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Resonant thriller on the machinations of the Malvinas war
British warships heading off towards the Malvinas
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
South Atlantic Requiem
by Edward Wilson
(Arcadia Books, £14.99)
HE'S certainly done it again. Edward Wilson has breathed new life into his leftist British spook William Catesby who, in South Atlantic Requiem, appears once more at the epicentre of another crisis.
This time he's trying to bolster the Peruvian peace initiative eventually scuppered by Thatcher’s criminal decision to attack the General Belgrano warship as it headed away from the Malvinas in 1982.
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