CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Mr Peacock’s Possessions
by Lydia Syson
(Zaffre Publishing, £12.99)
LYDIA SYSON’S earlier books for young adults, A World Between Us, about British involvement in the Spanish civil war and the Paris Commune in Liberty’s Fire, were rightly praised for their historical accuracy and dramatic narratives.
Her latest appears to straddle both young and adult fiction but cannot decide which age group it wishes to address.
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ALAN McGUIRE welcomes a biography of the French semiologist and philosopher