Reviews of A New Kind Of Wilderness, The Marching Band, Good One and Magic Farm by MARIA DUARTE, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA
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Round-up 2016: Gardening with Mat Coward
Star critics run through what’s impressed them this year
SCOTT ALSWORTH foresees the coming of the smaller, leaner, and class conscious indie studio, with art as its guiding star
MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
THERE’S always something new, something I’ve never heard of before. My Tiny Garden by Lucy Anna Scott with Lucy Conochie (Pavilion, £14.99) shows us how to make a mobile bog garden from a wheelbarrow and a bag of gravel.
I think that’s brilliant. It’ll cost little — or nothing, if you manage to scrounge the ingredients from skips or Freecycle — it’ll give great pleasure and when you move you can take it with you.
Alongside such projects, this book is full of case histories of people in towns and cities around the world who are determined to enjoy some gardening, despite having little or no space in which to do it.
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