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Pack these novels about vacations gone very wrong on your next trip.

Serbia remains immersed in a deep political crisis before the perplexed gaze of the EU caught in the crossfire between the strategic need to keep supporting a candidate country for EU membership, and the realisation that many principles of law here are still very far from European standards.

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.

The actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon’s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production