GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
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Take back the land for the common good
PAUL DONOVAN applauds a highly important book that appears at a crucial time in the present biodiversity and climate crisis
DESPICABLE PASTIMES: John Ferneley, Edward Horner Reynard and his Brother George Grouse-Shooting At Middlesmoor, Yorkshire, with Their Gamekeeper Tully Lamb, 1836
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MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
HENRY BELL is fascinated by the underlying curiosities and contradictions of one of the great poets of the Mediterranean
DAVID RENTON recommends a books that explores the ways in which disabled people are made to feel both of and not part of this world
The Lie of the Land
Guy Shrubsole, William Collins, £22
THIS book provides vital reading for government ministers, activists and anyone who cares about the future of the planet.
Guy Shrubsole reveals how the limited number of people who own land in Britain have overseen the trashing of this asset under the guise of being good stewards.
There are telling statistics, such as that just 5 per cent of the land is taken for private homes and gardens. This figure rises to 8.8 per cent if the definition is extended to all land built on. A further 73 per cent is farmland and 10 per cent forestry.
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