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Poem of the week: Autumn by Vidyan Ravinthiran

silverguide.site – Keats’s famous ode speaks across time and space to a 21st-century Sri Lankan, whose turbulent history catches on its mellow mood…
Poem of the week: Autumn by Vidyan Ravinthiran

The Adversary by Michael Crummey review – dark humour and depravity at the edge of the Earth

silverguide.site – This prize-winning take on a biblical tale set in 1800s Newfoundland is grim, but has energy, empathy – and a wickedly colourful way with words…
The Adversary by Michael Crummey review – dark humour and depravity at the edge of the Earth

Alexandrian Sphinx by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis review – the mysterious life of Constantine Cavafy

silverguide.site – The enigmatic queer poet admired by EM Forster and Jackie Onassis takes centre stage in this unconventional biography…
Alexandrian Sphinx by Peter Jeffreys and Gregory Jusdanis review – the mysterious life of Constantine Cavafy

A poem by Grace Yee: ‘A well-known male poet sniggered at the title. I took this as a sign to keep it’

silverguide.site – Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, Yee, an award-winning poet, shares the dream that inspired this ‘whimsical’ poem…
A poem by Grace Yee: ‘A well-known male poet sniggered at the title. I took this as a sign to keep it’

Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’

silverguide.site – Twenty-five years after his award-winning book was published, the Australian author revisits True History of the Kelly Gang…
Peter Carey on Ned Kelly: ‘Did no one see what I saw, that our famous bushranger was a raging poet?’

‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf

silverguide.site – The poet reflects on his heritage, his new life as a father in Margate – and why his memoir is a call to arms…
‘I’m carrying survivor’s guilt’: Raymond Antrobus on growing up deaf

Is it, like, OK to say ‘like’ now?

silverguide.site – A new book argues the long despised word associated with valley girls is now essential to the way we communicate…
Is it, like, OK to say ‘like’ now?

The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix review – how trees rule the world

silverguide.site – The story of how the Earth, and human beings, have been shaped more than we know by these forces of nature…
The Genius of Trees by Harriet Rix review – how trees rule the world

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

silverguide.site – Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler; The Phoenix Pencil Company by Allison King; Hemlock & Silver by T Kingfisher; Secret Lives of the Dead by Tim Lebbon; The Course of the Heart by M John Harrison…
The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – review roundup

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wanted to ‘bid farewell’ to writing at 22, letter reveals

silverguide.site – Young poet details low mood and disappointment in love in 1795 letter, written not long before he met Wordsworth…
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wanted to ‘bid farewell’ to writing at 22, letter reveals

‘It’s another form of imperialism’: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal

silverguide.site – There’s a growing appetite for stories from around the globe – if only we can avoid the cliches and exoticism of recent years, writes the International Booker nominee…
‘It’s another form of imperialism’: how anglophone literature lost its universal appeal

Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien review – murder mystery probes privilege and class politics

silverguide.site – An ascendant lawyer from western Sydney is pulled back into his past in this pacy thriller interrogating the possibilities – and traps – of social mobility…
Learned Behaviours by Zeynab Gamieldien review – murder mystery probes privilege and class politics

James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione

silverguide.site – The crime writer and co-author Vicky Ward will recount murder of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, and chart ‘young man’s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer’…
James Patterson to write book about Luigi Mangione

The Names by Florence Knapp audiobook review – a Sliding Doors-style debut

silverguide.site – What happens to a boy called Gordon, Julian or Bear? Irish actor Dervla Kirwan narrates this smart tale about a how a boy’s name influences his life…
The Names by Florence Knapp audiobook review – a Sliding Doors-style debut

Interviewing Hitler by Richard Evans review – the most unethical journalist in history

silverguide.site – George Ward Price, the Mail’s star reporter, landed a series of scoops in the 1930s. But who was he really working for?…
Interviewing Hitler by Richard Evans review – the most unethical journalist in history

Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

silverguide.site – The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to write…
Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000

silverguide.site – Only a few hundred from the original 1,500 copy print run of Tolkien’s masterpiece are thought to still exist…
‘Unimaginably rare’ first edition of The Hobbit sells at auction for £43,000

This month’s best paperbacks: Gabriel García Márquez, Craig Brown and more

silverguide.site – Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some great new paperbacks, from a posthumous novel to an absorbing account of how nationalism shaped a country…
This month’s best paperbacks: Gabriel García Márquez, Craig Brown and more

Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood review – a caustic satire on war reporting in the Middle East

silverguide.site – A journalist pursues headline-making scoops whatever the cost to those in the conflict zone in this astute and darkly humorous debut novel by a former foreign correspondent…
Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood review – a caustic satire on war reporting in the Middle East

The Origin of Language by Madeleine Beekman review – the surprising history of speech

silverguide.site – It takes a village to raise a child – and that’s why we started speaking, argues an evolutionary biologist…
The Origin of Language by Madeleine Beekman review – the surprising history of speech
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