Torture: Does It Work? by Yvonne Ridley Military Studies Press £14.95 Well, yes, perhaps, maybe, sometimes it might, possibly, in the future, as the bomb tick, tick, ticks away. Unless …
Apparel by Arthur Mauritz Dedalus £9.99 Apparel isn’t the most riveting book I’ve read this year but it’s a curious concoction which I understand is the author’s first novel. It …
The Third Reich In History And Memory by Richard J Evans Abacus £12.99 Richard J Evans’ fascinating study of contemporary historical writing on Nazi Germany unfolds over twenty-eight essays, most …
Trump Revealed by Michael Kranish &?Marc Fisher Simon &?Schuster £20 There’s no need to dig up dirt on Donald Trump. It’s already there, on the surface, masses of it, foul …
The Euro And Its Threat to The Future Of Europe by Joseph Stiglitz Allen Lane £20 The Euro is the one EU project on which the left and right appear …
Pigeon English Ambassadors Theatre, London Girls Soho Theatre, London Youth in theatre equates with energy, but how young people are represented on stage may also be an index of social …
(S8) Film Festival A Coruña, Spain The medium of film, it’s often remarked, allows us to see through other people’s eyes for an hour or two; experimental cinema, while it …
American Honey Director: Andrea Arnold American Honey is an exhilaratingly unconventional, non-judgmental ride into American youth culture. It follows the adventures of a teenager, Star (striking newcomer Sasha Lane) who …
The Fairy Queen Academy of Ancient Music, Barbican, London With the restoration in 1660 came once more a growth of theatrical and musical entertainment in London’s theatres, emerging in the …
The Graham Norton Show BBC 1 The talk show is a curious television phenomenon. As Graham Norton settles in for his latest autumn run, it prompts childhood memories of what …
London Film Festival 2016 The London Film Festival is traditionally a “festival of festivals” where the best films shown at Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes and Venice are premiered in the UK. …
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 …
