MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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Revelatory account of how and why Britain armed brutal dictatorships in 1970s' Chile and Argentina
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
Britain and the Dictatorships of Argentina and Chile, 1973-8:
Foreign Policy, Corporations and Social Movements
by Grace Livingstone
(Palgrave Macmillan, £79.99)
DON’T let the rather cumbersome title of Grace Livingstone’s book put you off, even if the price might, because it's a very readable and pioneering work. Although Livingstone is scrupulously accurate and bases her arguments on extensive research, she makes little secret of where her sympathies lie — and they are not with dictators or arms manufacturers.
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