New Boy
Tracy Chevalier, Hogarth, £12.99
Shakespeare’s Othello morphs into a 1970s schoolboy in this reworking of one of the Bard’s greatest plays.
The Moor of Venice becomes Osei, a Ghanaian student who joins an all-white school in Washington, and has to navigate playground bigotries.
Sadly New Boy struggles to deliver the brutal and grown-up drama of its 16th Century counterpart.
OUR VERDICT 6/10