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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
‘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
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
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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