MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Small Acts of Courage by Sue McCormick
Timely reminder of the power of individual and collective action to bring about positive change
HIGHLY READABLE: Sue McCormick
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
IT MIGHT be easy to lose hope after the Brexit referendum, Labour’s election defeat and the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic but not so with Sue McCormick’s debut novel.
A bite-size introduction to some of the last century’s radical history, it places friendship at its core as it interweaves the lives of four women.
Daisy is an illiterate music hall performer in Edwardian London and Nora a millworker from Salford who nurses at
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