WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
Crime fiction with Mat Coward: January 22, 2024
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
FIRST LIE WINS by Ashley Elston (Headline, £14.99) is set in small-town Louisiana, where among the local elite every tiny indicator of social class is picked over as studiously as the results of a CAT scan.
Evie Porter is struggling to fit in. She’s moved in with Ryan, who is as handsome as he is rich, well respected and well connected. She can’t pretend that she’s from the same moneyed background as he and his friends are, but she does have to find some way of making them all like her. It’s a matter of life or death. And the fact that there’s no such person as Evie Porter is just another complication.
This is a churningly exciting scam thriller, a great heart-starter for the dark new year.
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