CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
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STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves

JONATHAN TAYLOR is intrigued by an account of the struggle of Soviet-era musicians to adapt to the strictures of social realism

GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin

CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity

MARTIN GRAHAM recommends a book that makes a critique of neoclassical economics and attempts to envision a sustainable global future