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My friend Joan Didion wouldn’t have wanted her therapy notes to be published | Letter

silverguide.site – Letter: Responding to an editorial about the publication of Notes to John, Clare Reihill writes that the late American writer never left anything to chance …
My friend Joan Didion wouldn’t have wanted her therapy notes to be published | Letter
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Do we really need more male novelists?

silverguide.site – There may not be obvious successors to the likes of Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie among today’s hotshot young writers. But is a new publisher dedicated to ‘overlooked’ male voices necessary?…
Do we really need more male novelists?
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The best recent poetry – review roundup

silverguide.site – Midden Witch by Fiona Benson; Dwell by Simon Armitage; Nature Matters edited by Mona Arshi & Karen McCarthy Woolf; Lode by Gillian Allnutt; Silk Work by Imogen Cassels; A History of Western Music by August Kleinzahler…
The best recent poetry – review roundup
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‘Full-circle moment’: Candice Carty-Williams joins judging panel as 4thWrite prize opens for entries

silverguide.site – The author who founded the short story competition will be one of judges this year as the search begins for new writers of colour…
‘Full-circle moment’: Candice Carty-Williams joins judging panel as 4thWrite prize opens for entries
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‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

silverguide.site – The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96…
‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley
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Margaret Drabble: ‘Our family had a passion for Georgette Heyer’

silverguide.site – The author on re-reading The Mill on the Floss, discovering the eccentric genius of Georges Perec and the comforts of Lee Child…
Margaret Drabble: ‘Our family had a passion for Georgette Heyer’
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Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis

silverguide.site – A professor’s quest to make sense of her eco-anxiety takes her from her ancestral village in China to Cop 26 and beyond…
Red Pockets by Alice Mah review – finding hope amid the climate crisis
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Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?

silverguide.site – Bestselling Australian cookbook author Brooke Bellamy is under fire from Nagi Maehashi and Sally McKenney for copying recipes, allegations she denies. In a precise art like baking, how close is too close?…
Torte law: bakers are in a food fight over allegations of plagiarism – but who really owns a recipe?
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Little World by Josephine Rowe review – a beautiful novella that lacks heft

silverguide.site – Australian literature is littered with dead girls in the bush – and this finely wrought tale is narrated by a corpse who feels like just a gauzy metaphor…
Little World by Josephine Rowe review – a beautiful novella that lacks heft
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Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death

silverguide.site – History and autobiography are brilliantly intertwined as the Booker-winning author explores the choices and chance connections that shape our existence…
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan audiobook review – a bold memoir of life and near-death
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New book prize to award aspiring writer £75,000 for first three pages of novel

silverguide.site – The Next Big Story competition, run by writing school The Novelry, is encouraging entries from would-be authors ‘historically overlooked by the publishing industry’…
New book prize to award aspiring writer £75,000 for first three pages of novel
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The Pretender by Jo Harkin review – a bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue

silverguide.site – This fantasia on the life of Lambert Simnel, who finds himself a claimant to the English throne, is a romp through late-medieval identity and historical uncertainty…
The Pretender by Jo Harkin review – a bold and brilliant comedy of royal intrigue
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Author Barbara Pym may have worked for MI5, research suggests

silverguide.site – New work says novelist, who was a censor during second world war, may been employed to look for coded messages…
Author Barbara Pym may have worked for MI5, research suggests
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BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie

silverguide.site – Videos will share author’s tips on everything from story structure and plot twists to the art of suspense…
BBC harnesses AI to create writing classes given by Agatha Christie
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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in April

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 April
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Gruffalo to return with first new book in more than 20 years

silverguide.site – Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have announced they are working on a new outing for the monster in the deep dark wood, due out in September 2026…
Gruffalo to return with first new book in more than 20 years
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Parents: what are the best books to read aloud to children?

silverguide.site – We would like to hear what you think is the best book to read aloud with young children and why…
Parents: what are the best books to read aloud to children?
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Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex

silverguide.site – The Convenience Store Woman author imagines the creep of a new worldview, in a novel that highlights the weirdness of normal life…
Vanishing World by Sayaka Murata review – a future without sex
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Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests

silverguide.site – Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love…
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
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The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists

silverguide.site – The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers…
The Alienation Effect by Owen Hatherley review – meet the brutalists
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