WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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Reviews of The River by Peter Heller, Joe Country by Mick Herron, The Whisper Man by Alex North and The Killer You Know by SR Masters
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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
TWO US college friends undertake a trip by canoe through the beautiful, dangerous wilderness of northern Canada in The River by Peter Heller (Weidenfeld, £14.99).
Their joint love of classic expedition literature leads them to a back-to-basics approach. They carry no means of communicating with civilisation — if trouble comes, they will rely on their skills, their courage and their unbreakable bond to get them out of it.
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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
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
Monster profits on the Tube, paternal dilemmas for time travellers, and an alien abduction buddy saga
Conman conned in a twisty thriller, blind trust tested to the limit, cunning murder methods, and tip-top police procedural