JOE GILL speaks to the Palestinian students in Gaza whose testimony is collected in a remarkable anthology
Murder most foul – and entertaining – from London to Isis Syria
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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
BLIND DEFENCE (Little Brown, £16.99) is the second book in John Fairfax's series about a convicted murderer who becomes a London barrister and, if anything, it's even better than the first.
This time, William Benson is reunited with instructing solicitor Tess de Vere to defend a hopeless murder case. A young woman fled her life in Dover to escape her bullying boyfriend only to die in a rented room in London, with the boyfriend's DNA all over the place.
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