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Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell review – the original ghostbuster

silverguide.site – An entrancing biography of Tony Cornell, who displayed a scientist’s commitment to impartiality as he investigated the paranormal…
Chasing the Dark by Ben Machell review – the original ghostbuster
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‘Trump is a horror story, isn’t he?’ Stephen King on villains, dark secrets and dreams

silverguide.site – One of the world’s most successful authors answers readers’ questions on his sources of inspiration, the colour of fear, knowing when to quit – and why manual labour is invaluable for writers…
‘Trump is a horror story, isn’t he?’ Stephen King on villains, dark secrets and dreams
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Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon review – the ex-first minister opens up

silverguide.site – Scotland’s former leader addresses conflict with Salmond and rumours of a lesbian affair, but stops short of full disclosure…
Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon review – the ex-first minister opens up
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‘Looming over the city like gods’: the men who changed New York for better and worse

silverguide.site – Jonathan Mahler’s new book looks back at the tumultuous period when figures like Trump, Koch and Giuliani forever affected the city…
‘Looming over the city like gods’: the men who changed New York for better and worse
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The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist

silverguide.site – At four million words he beats Pepys, but the daily jottings of a judgmental don fail to transcend his rather stuffy millieu…
The Benson Diary by AC Benson review – musings of an Edwardian elitist
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Polari prize nominees and judges withdraw after inclusion of John Boyne over gender identity views

silverguide.site – 800 writers and publishing workers have signed a statement objecting to the LGBTQ+ book prize’s nomination of Boyne, who described himself as a ‘terf’…
Polari prize nominees and judges withdraw after inclusion of John Boyne over gender identity views
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Where to start with: John Burnside

silverguide.site – Seán Hewitt, who introduces a new edition of the Scottish author’s final memoir, guides readers through his landmark works a year on from his death…
Where to start with: John Burnside
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‘Once again, the west turns away’: a new book recounts the fall and rise of the Taliban

silverguide.site – Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson’s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9/11 to now…
‘Once again, the west turns away’: a new book recounts the fall and rise of the Taliban
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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
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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
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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
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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’
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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?’
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‘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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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‘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
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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
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