DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney
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Novel ideas in a knife to the heart, a pricking of the thumb and a skyward glance
STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe
JAMES WALSH takes advantage of an evening of comedy snippets to pick out which clowns will make it in Edinburgh
MAYER WAKEFIELD is swept up by the tale of the south London venue where music forged alliances across race, class and identity
MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
IN REJOICE, A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson (Gollancz, £18.99), the aliens have arrived and they're on a mission familiar to SF fans — to rescue the Earth from its human despoilers and, in doing so, pass judgment on the fate of humanity.
As the interface between us and their almost omnipotent artificial intelligence, they choose a chain-smoking, wise-cracking science-fiction writer who regularly receives death threats for her outspoken and wildly undiplomatic blogging.
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