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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
Round-up 2016: Gardening with Mat Coward
Star critics run through what’s impressed them this year
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
THERE’S always something new, something I’ve never heard of before. My Tiny Garden by Lucy Anna Scott with Lucy Conochie (Pavilion, £14.99) shows us how to make a mobile bog garden from a wheelbarrow and a bag of gravel.
I think that’s brilliant. It’ll cost little — or nothing, if you manage to scrounge the ingredients from skips or Freecycle — it’ll give great pleasure and when you move you can take it with you.
Alongside such projects, this book is full of case histories of people in towns and cities around the world who are determined to enjoy some gardening, despite having little or no space in which to do it.
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