ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
EIGHTY years ago, fleeing impending nazi occupation, 10-year-old Charlotte Mayer arrived in Britain from Prague.
Her life had been turned upside down, so perhaps it is not coincidental that through her abstract work Mayer seeks, and finds, serenity in an exhilarating equilibrium of forms, where the mathematics of the spiral are the enduring vocabulary.
JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
JOHN GREEN welcomes a remarkable study of Mozambique’s most renowned contemporary artist
Despite an over-sentimental narrative, MICHAL BONCZA applauds an ambitious drama about the Chinese rescue of British POWs in WWII
NICK MATTHEWS previews a landmark book launch taking place in Leicester next weekend



