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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Fire, brimstone and ashes of race hate
MAT COWARD rounds-up another bumper crop of issue-based thrillers
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
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
A new street drug is causing gang wars across Belfast, in Fire And Brimstone by Colin Bateman (Headline, £14.99), with death tolls rivalling the height of "the troubles."
One apparent casualty is a media mogul's student daughter, who has vanished after a massacre at a party.
Former reporter and reluctant private eye Dan Starkey is hired to find her, dead or alive. This would be hard enough for a half-way competent detective but for the disaster-magnet that is Starkey it's near impossible.
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