GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
ARMAND GAMACHE, head of homicide detectives in Quebec, has much on his mind in Louise Penny’s A Better Man (Sphere, £19.99).
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