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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
‘Right person, right place, right time’
At a moment when the continent’s frontiers are in acute danger of disintegration, SF author DAVE HUTCHINSON tells James Miller why he has written his acclaimed Europe novels
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
As razor-wire springs up like mushrooms, cross-border trafficking becomes a lucrative — and murky — business.
Of course, when Dave Hutchinson came up with that setting for his acclaimed novel Europe in Autumn he had no idea he was writing tomorrow’s headlines.
A science-fiction thriller with a strong European flavour, it landed in spring 2014 amid the Crimea conflict, simmering Scottish and Catalan independence campaigns, rumblings of Grexit and a feeling that the great EU experiment was drawing to a close.
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