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Martin Cruz Smith obituary

silverguide.site – Novelist best known for Gorky Park and the series of thrillers that followed featuring the Soviet detective Arkady Renko…
Martin Cruz Smith obituary
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The Immigrants by Moreno Giovannoni review – family history fuels a novel of understated beauty

silverguide.site – Blending fiction and family memoir, the author’s second novel pays tribute to the lives and labour of his parents and their community of postwar Italian immigrants in Australia…
The Immigrants by Moreno Giovannoni review – family history fuels a novel of understated beauty
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The Light of Day by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky audiobook review – a pioneer of gay liberation

silverguide.site – Stephens narrates his account of Roger Butler’s role in the gay rights movement before losing his sight – and their later life-changing friendship…
The Light of Day by Christopher Stephens and Louise Radnofsky audiobook review – a pioneer of gay liberation
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

silverguide.site – Writers and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments…
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July
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‘I’ve got my own theory’: Val McDermid play investigates death of Christopher Marlowe

silverguide.site – Crime writer says her conclusion on the circumstances of the 16th-century playwright’s killing ‘will surprise people’…
‘I’ve got my own theory’: Val McDermid play investigates death of Christopher Marlowe
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Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf

silverguide.site – More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery…
Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf
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Helen Garner praises ‘serious and sensitive’ Dua Lipa after musician adds Australian author to her book club

silverguide.site – Music superstar announces 2014 courtroom drama This House of Grief as first Australian pick for global monthly book club…
Helen Garner praises ‘serious and sensitive’ Dua Lipa after musician adds Australian author to her book club
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To buy or not to buy? $2m Shakespeare folio headlines literary treasures on sale at Melbourne’s rare book fair

silverguide.site – Booksellers converge for a history-spanning set of offers which includes an ancient Chinese cheat sheet, a jungle cookbook and the first illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice…
To buy or not to buy? $2m Shakespeare folio headlines literary treasures on sale at Melbourne’s rare book fair
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When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén review – a novel anyone will take to heart

silverguide.site – A huge hit in Sweden, this portrait of one man and his dog as the end approaches is a simple yet effective meditation on mortality, love and care…
When the Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén review – a novel anyone will take to heart
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Sarah Jessica Parker in possible conflict of interest over Booker longlisted author

silverguide.site – Actor and book prize judge’s production company in process of developing novel by Claire Adam…
Sarah Jessica Parker in possible conflict of interest over Booker longlisted author
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Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell review – Gwyn and bear it

silverguide.site – There’s glamour, Goop and ghosting in this an unsparing account of Paltrow’s world…
Gwyneth: The Biography by Amy Odell review – Gwyn and bear it
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Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw

silverguide.site – Chair of judges Roddy Doyle says the 13 ‘gripping’ titles in contention for the £50,000 award all ‘examine identity, individual or national’…
Most global Booker prize longlist in a decade features Kiran Desai and Tash Aw
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This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions

silverguide.site – Former winner Kiran Desai leads a varied field, while Alan Hollinghurst misses out…
This year’s Booker prize longlist looks in new directions
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The Fathers by John Niven review – class satire with grit

silverguide.site – Two fortysomething Glaswegians from either side of the tracks form an unlikely friendship in this comic melodrama…
The Fathers by John Niven review – class satire with grit
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After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population

silverguide.site – We shouldn’t celebrate a falling population, according to this persuasive debunking of demographic myths…
After the Spike by Dean Spears and Michael Geruso review – the truth about population
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Why is a cowboy writer from Ohio venerated in a small Aussie beach town? The incredible story of Zane Grey

silverguide.site – The dentist-turned bestselling author had a caravan park named after him after making a killer shark movie in 1930s Australia. A swashbuckling new biography unspools the unlikely tale…
Why is a cowboy writer from Ohio venerated in a small Aussie beach town? The incredible story of Zane Grey
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Poem of the week: A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley

silverguide.site – An atheist’s complaint at the scant room made by the church for his personal commemoration of the dead…
Poem of the week: A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley
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Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart review – is this the future for America?

silverguide.site – Set a decade from now, this coming-of-age caper offers a child’s-eye view of family troubles in a ‘post-democracy’ USA…
Vera, or Faith by Gary Shteyngart review – is this the future for America?
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King of Kings by Scott Anderson review – how the last shah of Iran sealed his own fate

silverguide.site – A clear-eyed account of a difficult, complex man and his self-inflicted fall from grace…
King of Kings by Scott Anderson review – how the last shah of Iran sealed his own fate
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Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry | Letters

silverguide.site – Letter: Maggie Humm says the author’s recollection of encountering a group of learning-disabled people is surely a defence mechanism and projection…
Reading deeper into Virginia Woolf’s vicious diary entry | Letters
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