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Sci-fi and fantasy round-up: June 24, 2020
Reviews of Hope Island by Tim Major, Engines Beneath Us by Malcolm Devlin, TTA Press, The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M John Harrison and The City of a Thousand Faces by Walker Dryden
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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
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
IN HOPE ISLAND by Tim Major (Titan, £8.99) TV news producer Nina is trying to process the shock of abandonment by her partner.
She takes her teenage daughter to stay with the girl’s American grandparents on Hope Island in the hope that maybe there the two will be able to reconnect. But the island is a strange place, full of oddly behaved children, shouting adults and mysterious deaths.
Nina’s maternal instincts prompt her to flee but her professional instincts tell her there’s a story on the island.
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