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Crime fiction with Mat Coward: August 26, 2024
As good a crime wave as any from southern England to Manhattan, New Orleans and then south London
GORDON PARSONS steps warily through the pessimistic world view of an influential US conservative
HENRY BELL takes issue with the assertion that basic income is a remedy for poverty when it doesn’t address the inbuilt inequality of capitalism
RON JACOBS welcomes an investigation of the murders of US leftist activists that tells the story of a solidarity movement in Chile
RITA DI SANTO surveys the smorgasbord of films on offer at this year’s festival
Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
THERE’S war between the classes and the generations in Our Holiday by Louise Candlish (HQ, £9.99). Pine Ridge is an idyllic little town on the south coast of England, but its loveliness is what’s led to its current problems.
With ever-increasing numbers of middle-aged London professionals buying second homes, there’s little hope of young locals getting their first place. And some of them are no longer willing to meekly accept the dictates of the free market.
For most of its length, this novel has the feel and pacing of a very superior beach read — lots of dangerous liaisons and shameful secrets — while the last quarter is a fast, suspenseful crime thriller. It sounds like an odd hybrid, but it really works: I was stuck to it like glue from first to last.
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