IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
Surviving the tyrant
MARIA DUARTE appreciates a political thriller set in the Tudor court of Henry VIII

Firebrand (15)
Directed by Karim Ainouz
THERE have been umpteen films about Henry VIII and his reign, and several of his wives and his children, yet this is one of the first about his sixth and last spouse Katherine Parr, who cared for him during his final years and survived him.
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