STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Crime fiction with Mat Coward: August 23, 2023
An impertinent detective, bereavement and vengeance in New York, an eye on the Lakes, and a Welsh Blair Witch
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
THE GOOD LIARS by Anita Frank (HQ, £16.99) takes place a couple of years after the end of World War I, when the Stilwells of Darkacre Hall can only dream of the life they knew before.
Once respected and deferred to, today they are openly shunned by the villagers. They live a lifeless existence, bound to each other by shameful secrets and mutual mistrust.
The difficulty of hiring servants means they are even reduced to answering their own doorbell — an especially distasteful task when the visitor is a detective asking impertinent questions about the summer of 1914.
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