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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
Fire, brimstone and ashes of race hate
MAT COWARD rounds-up another bumper crop of issue-based thrillers
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
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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Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality
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