WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
IN THE Bishop's Pawn (Hodder, £17.99), Steve Berry takes his secret agent character Cotton Malone back to his first job for a US Justice Department caught in the middle of a battle to control the narrative of Martin Luther King's assassination.
As usual with Berry, this is a history lesson wrapped up in a fast-moving chase story. And it's a well-researched one, with Berry particularly keen to remind us that King's work is far from finished.
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A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
If true, the photo’s history is a damning indictment of the systematic exploitation of non-Western journalists by Western media organisations – a pattern that persists today, posit KATE CANTRELL and ALISON BEDFORD