MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: July 26, 2023
Take your pick from bent Tories, tragic coming-of-age, strings-attached charity, and a classic bonkers thriller
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
THE most blatantly corrupt government in British history has been something of a godsend to thriller writers over the last few years.
The bent Tory at the centre of THE FALLEN by John Sutherland (Orion, £18.99) is the new policing minister, who’s widely tripped as the next party leader. His great crusade is the privatisation of the police — a “reform” worth tens of millions to people close to him.
Police negotiator, Superintendent Alex Lewis gets involved when he talks a distressed young woman down from a bridge in London.
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