WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Crooked Dances, The Other Place Stratford-upon-Avon
Engagingly old-fashioned ghost story dressed up in modern clothes
Recluse: Ruth Lass as Silvia de Zigaro
[Ellie Kurtz] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
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
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
ALL the conventional elements of the bog-standard chiller are present in Robin French’s Crooked Dances, with its pair of innocents caught up in a mysterious and sinister situation, climaxing in a dark and rainy night marooned in a lonely house surrounded by a wolf-inhabited forest.
The innocents are with-it media folk Katy (Jeany Spark) and Nick (Olly Mott), sent by a trendy weekend magazine to interview and photograph reclusive world-famous classical pianist Silvia de Zigaro (Ruth Lass), who’s supposedly preparing for her final concert appearance.
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