MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Science fiction round-up April 2022
with Mat Coward
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
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
NELL is a cartographer, the daughter of cartographer parents, in Peng Shepherd’s delicious urban fantasy, The Cartographers (Orion, £14.99).
She’s been estranged from her famous father for several years when he is found dead in his office at the New York Public Library.
Among all the priceless maps he was responsible for, Nell learns that he was inexplicably obsessed with one mass-produced, but now oddly scarce, highway map.
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