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JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
Novel ideas in a knife to the heart, a pricking of the thumb and a skyward glance
MARY CONWAY delights in a rarely performed comedy that recalls a Britain we remember in our bones
JEAN ROBERTS appreciates the way traditional panto can be remodelled into critique of the academy schools system
MARY CONWAY is riveted by a superbly crafted glimpse into the soul of a cast-off US star
MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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
IN REJOICE, A Knife to the Heart by Steven Erikson (Gollancz, £18.99), the aliens have arrived and they're on a mission familiar to SF fans — to rescue the Earth from its human despoilers and, in doing so, pass judgment on the fate of humanity.
As the interface between us and their almost omnipotent artificial intelligence, they choose a chain-smoking, wise-cracking science-fiction writer who regularly receives death threats for her outspoken and wildly undiplomatic blogging.
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