WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne

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