ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review On The Sea, A Useful Ghost, Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, and Pinocchio Unstrung
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Thrilling expose of the destruction of the ecology of Argentinian pampas
RON JACOBS enjoys a great tale, told by a US communist, of the lives of working-class New Yorkers
BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions
MARIA DUARTE recommends the true story of the remarkable woman who sued Donald Trump for sexual assault not once, but twice
KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
Fever Dream
By Samanta Schweblin
(Oneworld, £7.99)
WHEN does a dream became a nightmare? How to make sense of a world that rapidly turns into an apocalyptic hallucination? In Fever Dream, young Argentinian writer Samanta Schweblin has managed to skilfully weave a story that is at the same time frightening, eerie and totally mesmerising.
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