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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Killer tales from Dallas, Maryland and Hadrian’s Wall
Mat Coward's crime fiction round-up
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
In 1964 in Dallas a baby named Andrew saw his mother and her lover murdered in front of him. His father, a professional killer, disappeared at the same time.
The conclusion was obvious.
Twenty-six years later, in Ryan David Jahn’s The Gentle Assassin (Pan, £7.99), Andrew decides that he can never truly begin living his own life until he has exorcised that trauma.
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