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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

John Hall obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: English lecturer and poet who created one of the first degree courses in performance writing at Dartington College in Devon…
John Hall obituary

Lord Desai obituary

silverguide.site – Economist who reassessed Karl Marx’s view of the durability of capitalism and wrote on Indian culture and history…
Lord Desai obituary

Bryce Courtenay, conspiracies and campfire cooking: the best Australian books out in August

silverguide.site – Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on…
Bryce Courtenay, conspiracies and campfire cooking: the best Australian books out in August

‘No one could compete’: readers remember the magic of Allan Ahlberg’s stories

silverguide.site – A godsend to teachers winning children over to books, they have also provided precious shared family fun and ‘jolts of warmth and home’…
‘No one could compete’: readers remember the magic of Allan Ahlberg’s stories

Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald review – humanity’s greatest myth?

silverguide.site – A spirited skewering of the idea that things can only get better takes us from the Book of Genesis to neoliberalism…
Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald review – humanity’s greatest myth?

TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you

silverguide.site – This brilliantly over-the-top comedy about an unworldly heckler explores art and authenticity – being tripped up by it is part of the fun…
TonyInterruptor by Nicola Barker review – satire that sees right through you

Poem of the week: Sea-Fever by John Masefield

silverguide.site – A single missing word in the 1902 poem sparks a deeper look at rhythm, dialect and longing…
Poem of the week: Sea-Fever by John Masefield

Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review – darkly funny Swedish autofiction

silverguide.site – In this bleak, bestselling coming-of-age debut, the author evokes life with the seven dads he had in seven years…
Bloody Awful in Different Ways by Andrev Walden review – darkly funny Swedish autofiction

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

silverguide.site – Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser…
The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator

Pissants by Brandon Jack review – is this novel a critique or a celebration of toxic masculinity? Even it isn’t sure

silverguide.site – The former AFL player’s debut novel barely has a plot, following a group of aggressive, entitled footy players as they get wasted and treat women like props…
Pissants by Brandon Jack review – is this novel a critique or a celebration of toxic masculinity? Even it isn’t sure

A poem by David Brooks: ‘Counting sheep is difficult for me – I try to give each one a face and personality’

silverguide.site – Each week during Australian Poetry Month, a poet walks us through one of their works. Here, David Brooks reflects on insomnia and the exhaustion that comes with animal advocacy…
A poem by David Brooks: ‘Counting sheep is difficult for me – I try to give each one a face and personality’

The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir

silverguide.site – It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage…
The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir

‘A psychological umbilical cord’: Why fiction loves difficult mothers

silverguide.site – As the film of Deborah Levy’s novel Hot Milk is released, author Abigail Bergstrom explores the literary fascination with inaccessible, emotionally distant maternal figures…
‘A psychological umbilical cord’: Why fiction loves difficult mothers

Tell us about your favourite Allan Ahlberg book

silverguide.site – We would like to hear your tributes to Allan Ahlberg and what his children’s books meant to you…
Tell us about your favourite Allan Ahlberg book
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