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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
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ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
The Girl in the Back: A Female Drummer’s Life with Bowie, Blondie and the ’70s Rock Scene
by Laura Davis-Chanin
(Backbeat Books, £19.99)
“THIS is not the book you think it is,” warns Laura Davis-Chanin at the start of The Girl in the Back.
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