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Courttia Newland was in his mid-twenties when he had his first out-of-body experience. Following the publication of his debut novel,
The Scholar (1997), he lived in a shared flat in Ladbroke Grove, west London. One night, “I had this panic attack where I couldn’t breathe, couldn’t see, and for some reason, instead of fighting, I decided to just relax,” he said. Calmly, he had the sense that he had left his body and was looking down at it as it lay on his bed. Night terrors were not new to Newland – he had experienced them as a teenager. But previously he had always made sure he woke up; never before had he allowed himself to be carried along by the event.
Review by Barry Didcock As well as being a novelist, playwright and co-editor of The Penguin Book Of New Black Writing In Britain, Courttia Newland co-wrote two of the five films in Steve McQueen’s acclaimed Small Axe anthology, which delved deep into the history of the black British experience in the 1970s and 1980s. Anyone expecting more of the same in A River Called Time can forget it, however: sprawling, ambitious, often thought-provoking and just as often baffling, Newland’s latest novel is as hard to comprehend as it is to forget. It’s set, initially at least, in an alternate London called Dinium on a world called Geb. In a handy timeline, Newland runs through the main historical events in this alternate universe starting with key dates in Egyptian history (Kemetism, the revival of the ancient Egyptian religion, features large). Christ’s life is shortened by 10 years, and by 213 AD the Roman emperors are favouring religions based on Kemetian Cosmology. In 1434, a
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John Boyega plays former London police officer Logan in Red, White and Blue, the third film in Amazon s series. Says the real Logan of seeing himself depicted: If there s anything that all the episodes have done, it s been the conversations that they ve created.
The third film in the
Small Axe anthology directed by Steve McQueen (considered a limited series by HFPA guidelines), Amazon and BBC s
Red, White and Blue stars John Boyega as London Metropolitan Police Force Officer Leroy Logan, who worked within the system to create police reforms in the 1980s. Logan s encounters with racism on the force as the son of a Jamaican father (who himself was beaten by cops and falsely charged) are compounded by the alienating response within his community. From being nearly fatally left without backup support to being considered a traitor among London s West Indian immigrants, Logan was forced to fend for himself as he worked to restore
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