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Jess Loveland, Head of New Writing for BBC Drama Commissioning and BBC Writersroom, was recently joined by Writer, Louise Doughty and Executive Producer, Laurence Bowen of the latest BBC Drama, Crossfire in a special online webinar.
BARCELONA DREAMING by Rupert Thomson (Corsair £16.99, 224 pp) Set in the late 2000s, Thomson’s latest is a panacea for those pining for the Iberian peninsula, a triptych whose stories touch upon each other and shimmer with a delicately hallucinatory edge. In the first, an English expat embarks on a relationship with a beautiful Moroccan immigrant, occasioning the wrath of her racist neighbour and culminating in a fatal fracas. In the second, an alcoholic ex-jazz musician appears to strike up a friendship with the football superstar Ronaldinho, although what seems initially to be a harmless...