JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
Holmes by another hand, prehistoric serial killers, Rankin's latest and murderous snapshots
MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
IN MYCROFT and Sherlock (Titan, £17.99) by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse, rising star at the War Office Mycroft Holmes has no interest in the macabre murders taking place in London in 1872.
The victims are Chinese, so no doubt the killings have something to do with the opium trade — a distasteful business, to be sure, but one that is necessary to protect and promote Britain's interests as a trading power.
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