A River Called Time by Courttia Newland review - a vivid alternate reality

This speculative dystopia may strain for effect but is carried through by sheer energy and verve It speaks to the hold TV still has over our culture that Courttia Newland, the author of seven novels and co-editor of The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, is best known today for the scripts he wrote for Steve McQueen's BBC series Small Axe. Excellent scripts they are, too, and there is something televisual in the way Newland pitches his new novel: lots of visual description, busy with ...