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The 10 best audiobooks for summer

silverguide.site – To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot…
The 10 best audiobooks for summer
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The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain

silverguide.site – From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent – how once common birds left their mark in British place names…
The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain
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Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut

silverguide.site – A young gay Black man escapes from grief into the hedonism of upper-echelon New York, in a lyrical tale of redemption…
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut
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Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced

silverguide.site – Six ‘inspiring new voices’ made the list, which features a Saltburn-style summer holiday and a Swedish bestseller…
Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced
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‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?

silverguide.site – A harrowing new book looks back at a dark period of US history as the Johns committee targeted Black and queer Americans, drawing parallels to what’s happening now…
‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
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Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year

silverguide.site – In this page-turning romance, teenage sweethearts reunite as thirtysomething women…
Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year
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Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration

silverguide.site – An ambitious meditation on the ability of narrative to shape our perceptions of one another and our experience of home…
Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration
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Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend

silverguide.site – The author, who parlayed her experience into the award-winning novel The Spare Room, recently re-lived it while watching the stage adaptation…
Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend
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‘It’s not quite what I had in mind entering my eighth decade’: the London librarian of Lesbos

silverguide.site – Rather than retiring to Greece, 71-year-old Ruth Miller created ‘a sanctuary of hope and healing’ in a refugee camp…
‘It’s not quite what I had in mind entering my eighth decade’: the London librarian of Lesbos
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‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!

silverguide.site – Her rhyming tales have enchanted children and parents the world over – but which is the best? From a busker’s cat to a greedy rat, it’s time to rate the hits…
‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!
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Parents: what is your child’s favourite Julia Donaldson book?

silverguide.site – We would like to hear from parents about their child’s favourite Julia Donaldson story, and why…
Parents: what is your child’s favourite Julia Donaldson book?
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Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska

silverguide.site – Gifts sent from a loved one abroad at first bring warmth and joy, then grave alarm…
Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska
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The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things

silverguide.site – From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?…
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
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The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast

silverguide.site – The acclaimed short-story writer brings her characters vividly to life in this debut novel about a teenage girl’s assault and its aftermath…
The Benefactors by Wendy Erskine review – a polyphonic portrait of class and trauma in Belfast
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The big idea: should we embrace boredom?

silverguide.site – Smartphones offer instant stimulation, but do they silence a deeper message?…
The big idea: should we embrace boredom?
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‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark

silverguide.site – From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future…
‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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Funny, weird … sexy? How to find your perfect wedding poem

silverguide.site – Small, huge, camp, Star Trek-themed … weddings have changed beyond recognition, but we’re still reading out the same old Shakespeare sonnets. What to read at a modern ceremony? Plus, leading poets pick their favourites…
Funny, weird … sexy? How to find your perfect wedding poem
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‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant

silverguide.site – The Story of a Heart, which won this year’s award for nonfiction, tells how one child saved the life of another. The author talks about the amazing families involved, campaigning for a better NHS, and how being a doctor frames the way she writes…
‘They entrusted me with their daughter’s memory’: Women’s prize winner Rachel Clarke on her story of a life-saving transplant
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Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’

silverguide.site – The winner of this year’s fiction prize on growing up as an outsider, why we’re all guilty of complicity, and using her acceptance speech to reveal that she is intersex…
Women’s prize winner Yael van der Wouden: ‘It’s heartbreaking to see so much hatred towards queer people’
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The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?

silverguide.site – They were impossibly glamorous, fatally flawed and turned up at every significant moment of the 20th century, but underneath it all is a highly relatable family drama – without the infamous friends…
The Kardashians of history: why are we so obsessed with the Mitford sisters?
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