MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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Crime fiction round-up
Reviews of The Oxford Brotherhood by Guillermo Martinez, Repentance by Eloisa Diaz, Powder Smoke by Andrew Martin and Shadow of a Doubt by Michelle Davies
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
IN THE OXFORD BROTHERHOOD by Guillermo Martinez (Little Brown, £16.99) “G,” an Argentinian mathematics student in Oxford in 1994, is drawn into a deadly mystery through his mentor’s involvement in an academic society of Lewis Carroll admirers.
A young researcher claims to have made an astonishing discovery concerning one of the great mysteries of Carroll’s life. It’s the question which has overshadowed study of the author of the Alice books since the 1950s — the nature of his relationship with little girls, which to modern sensibilities is highly troubling.
When the researcher almost dies in a suspicious accident, G must uncover the truth of puzzles old and new to prevent further bloodshed.
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