WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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Crime fiction
Reviews of The Lady Thrillers, How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff, Hellyer's Coup by Philip Prowse and The April Dead by Alan Parks
Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
THE launch of Crimeucopia, a series of themed paperback anthologies, is a promising development for British crime fiction, especially for those who treasure the purest form of the genre, the short story.
The first quarterly issue is a women-only volume subtitled The Lady Thrillers (Murderous Ink Press, £8.99), featuring 16 women writers from various countries and of varying styles.
At the start of How to Betray Your Country by James Wolff (Bitter Lemon, £8.99), August Drummond has been sacked by MI5 and his wife has died in an accident.
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Conman conned in a twisty thriller, blind trust tested to the limit, cunning murder methods, and tip-top police procedural
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy