A manifesto for change, feminism in the digital age and a wordless play by Palestinians

SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a brilliant untold Merseybeat story of how four talented women dared to break the mould

SYLVIA HIKINS is enthralled by a biography of an extraordinary, 19th-century mould-breaker who influenced policies regarding the status of women in society

SYLVIA HIKINS applauds a musical show that emphasises the growing difference in songwriting between Lennon and McCartney 

SYLVIA HIKINS revisits the visionary world of Blake in a handsome book that sets him alongside his European contemporaries

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a hugely readable account of the life and thinking of the greatest scholar of the Anglo Saxon period

SYLVIA HIKINS wholeheartedly recommends the stage production of Alan Bleasdale’s warm, witty TV classic

SYLVIA HIKINS is moved by a comprehensive anthology of the literature that emerged from the International Brigades

SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by the argument that identity is expressive of present and past class antagonism

SYLVIA HIKINS recommends a graphic novel that lays bare the human and environmental costs of opencast mining in Alberta

SYLVIA HIKINS is uplifted by a firm defence of extra-parliamentary opposition

A history of an innovative Liverpool medical centre shows how its radical principles helped it meet the needs of one of the most deprived inner-city communities in Britain, writes SYLVIA HIKINS