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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Left list speaks radical volumes
There was an astounding number of radical books published in the last 12 months and that looks set to increase in 2015, says publisher Ross Bradshaw
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
While the book trade debates whether the day of the celebrity biography has finally come to an end, some commercial publishers have started noticing that left-wing books sell well, with Allen Lane publishing The Establishment by Owen Jones.
This book topped the Christmas best-seller charts at Nottingham’s Five Leaves Bookshop and at News from Nowhere in Liverpool, coming second at Housmans in London only to its own Peace Diary. Allen Lane also published Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything, a book that places the blame for climate change right where it belongs — on capitalism.
At Five Leaves Bookshop, which has completed its first full year of trading, the only novel in the 15 best-sellers in December was John Harvey’s Darkness, Darkness, set during the miners’ strike, and two others on it were related to that defining part of our common history.
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