New releases from Rosa Walton, Paul McCartney, and Aidan Thorne & Jason Ball

JONATHAN TAYLOR reviews a collection of short stories wherein news - and the absence of news - changes lives

On the centenary of her birth, JOHN GREEN celebrates the life — and politics — of Marilyn Monroe

NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain

ALEX HALL welcomes the memoir of a prominent British academic of Ugandan/Zimbabwean heritage

JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip

RON JACOBS welcomes a sharp, intelligent and witty exposé of the corruption and right-wing politics that have taken over international professional football

GORDON PARSONS is disappointed by Kenneth Branagh’s lightweight Prospero in an ambitious rendition of the play

MARIA DUARTE, JOHN GREEN and ANGUS REID review Power Ballad, Landmarks, My Mother’s Wedding, and Fairyland

MARIA DUARTE recommends a truly immersive crime thriller that explores the consequences of creative paralysis

Chris Searle speaks to bassist PAUL ROGERS

by Abeer Ameer