MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
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Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man by Edward Wilson
Outstanding espionage series draws to a memorable close
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
FOR those fans who’ve followed the career of William Catesby across the previous seven novels centred around Edward Wilson’s extraordinarily grounded, cultured and left-wing British spy, his latest makes for a most satisfying read.
Loose ends are, at least in part, neatly tidied up but the first-time Catesby reader shouldn’t be fazed either, as Portrait of the Spy as a Young Man is a compelling standalone experience.
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