Soul Of The Fire by Eliot Pattison Minotaur £17.99 Tibet is a forgotten issue. As we struggle with the political and military quagmire of the Middle East, IS, Yemen …
The Topical Times For These Times:?A?Book Of Liverpool Football by Ken Grant RRB?Publishing £35 Liverpool born photographer Ken Grant has been photographing the weekly rituals around the city’s two famous …
Pierced By The Sun by Laura Esquivel AmazonCrossing £8.99 Mexico City, the setting for this novel, is like London stretched to the nth degree; so grubby, so socially and …
Raoul Wallenberg by Ingrid Carlberg Maclehose Press £30 Raoul Wallenberg, descendant of a banking dynasty, was a Swedish diplomat who was responsible, in the final months of 1944, for …
Halifax 1842:?A Year Of Crisis by Catherine Howe Breviary Stuff £14.50 Catherine Howe has done an incredible job by discovering a significant piece of West Yorkshire history that very few …
No Man’s Land Wyndham’s Theatre, London Doctor Faustus Barbican Theatre, London Revivals of classic plays are a staple of British theatre. But each time a play is revived questions …
Swiss Army Man Directors: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert The Lovers and the Despot Director: Peter Berg Two guys named Daniel (surnames Kwan and Scheinert) direct another Daniel (Radcliffe) …
Ripper Street BBC 1 Ripper Street is back on mainstream television. Amazon Prime now commissions it and has the first run of each new season, but the show has …
The Girl With All The Gifts Director: Colm McCarthy Deepwater Horizon Director: Peter Berg Most zombie stories follow more or less the same formula: awkward guys use guns and improvised …
The Lovers and the Despot Directors: Ross Adam, Robert Cannan The story that forms the basis of Ross Adam and Robert Cannan’s documentary The Lovers and the Despot deserves …
Swiss Army Man Director: Daniels (Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert) Two guys named Daniel (surnames Kwan and Scheinert) direct another Daniel (Radcliffe) opposite a guy whose surname also has Dan …
Sid Above the Arts Theatre London Leon Fleming’s one man show, Sid, is ostensibly about one punk rocker’s fixation with Sid Vicious. Never mind that Sid may have killed his …
The Prospector by JMG?Le Clezio Atlantic Books, £17.99 Dreamlike and elegiac, this new translation of a 1985 novel by the Nobel Prize laureat is a love letter to his native …
Five Ideas To Fight For:?How Our Freedom Is Under Threat And Why It Matters by Anthony Lester Oneworld, £16.99 In this summary of causes which have figured prominently in the …
Women Workers & The Trade Unions by Sarah Boston Lawrence &?Wishart, £20 This is a revised version of a book originally written in 1980 and which now covers from the …
A Most Uncivil War by Nicolas Lalaguna Matador, £9.99 Wars inevitably generate a deluge of novels, and civil wars in particular lend themselves to an array of conflicting human emotions …
Cousin Bazilio by Eca de Quieroz Dedalus, £12.99 The painting of The Bride by the celebrated artist Paula Rego adorns the cover of this book. Fittingly so. For Eca de …
Martin Creed attempts to channel Jackson Pollock Martin Creed: What You Find Hauser &?Wirth, Bruton, Somerset Remember those news reports a couple of months ago about the teenagers who left …
Labyrinth Hampstead Theatre, London In past decades, the trouble with British theatre was that it wasn’t political. Nowadays the trouble is that there are plenty of political plays, but their …
Made In Dagenham Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich (September 21 – October 18) This musical based on the 2010 film about the strike by women at Ford’s Dagenham plant in 1968 opened …
Captain Fantastic Directed by Matt Ross Watching Captain Fantastic, director Matt Ross’ second movie, I was reminded of the screenwriting advice mocked in Todd Solondz’s Wiener Dog: you’ve got to …
What’s left of the socialist spirit of one of Europe’s pioneering cinema showcases? On one level, we could airily suggest that a festival is ‘owned’ by its audience, the people …
Britten In Brooklyn Wilton’s Music Hall, London In Britten in Brooklyn writer Zoe Lewis presents a snapshot of life in 7 Middagh Street, NYC, where Benjamin Britten escaped war-torn …
