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Jane Gardam obituary
silverguide.site – Prolific novelist and short-story writer with a taste for the absurd…
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Jane Gardam, author of Old Filth and The Hollow Land, dies aged 96
silverguide.site – Described by Ian McEwan as ‘a treasure of English contemporary writing’, the Yorkshire-born novelist’s career spanned 50 years…
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RecipeTin Eats founder accuses Brooki Bakehouse of plagiarising recipes in popular cookbook
silverguide.site – Brooke Bellamy denies taking recipes from fellow cookbook author Nagi Maehashi, who said it felt like ‘blatant exploitation’…
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Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra’s story
silverguide.site – The acclaimed writer of His Dark Materials says the third volume in The Book of Dust series will portray a ‘dangerous, breathtaking quest’…
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Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley review – a delightfully grounded romance
silverguide.site – This irresistible love story braids the personal and the political – from Brexit to who gets to use the spare room as an office…
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Parallel Lines by Edward St Aubyn review – troubled minds and family mysteries
silverguide.site – The Patrick Melrose author brings his trademark dark wit and flinty compassion to this wide-ranging sequel…
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New independent press to focus on male writers
silverguide.site – Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’…
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Poem of the week: Gravel by Maurice Riordan
silverguide.site – There’s a wry smile underlying Riordan’s examination of the greatness and smallness of a heap of gravel…
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Notes to John by Joan Didion review – an invasion of privacy
silverguide.site – There’s a crude fascination in seeing the contents of a literary celebrity’s therapy sessions, but no one comes out of it well…
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Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane review – streams of consciousness
silverguide.site – An impassioned plea to save our rivers combines poetry and adventure…
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The big idea: will we ever make life in the lab?
silverguide.site – Intriguing advances hold out the possibility – but first we have to agree on what ‘life’ means…
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Writer Saba Sams: ‘I wanted it to be sexy and really messy’
silverguide.site – The Send Nudes author, one of Granta’s pick of the best young British novelists, on young motherhood, feminism and why we need to break the rules around love…
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Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – all the ideas Trump deems most dangerous
silverguide.site – This comedy of manners set among Berlin’s cultural elite is a prescient interrogation of language, identity and power…
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‘Beyoncé and Solange tell me off all the time’: Tina Knowles on raising superstars, surviving cancer and growing up under segregation
silverguide.site – Pop’s top matriarch is finally getting the credit she’s due. She talks about her shock diagnosis, conspiracy theories about her family, and the Instagram posts that get her in trouble with her kids…
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‘This treasure belongs to the nation’: Miriam Margolyes and Brian Cox join calls to save Wordsworth’s home
silverguide.site – The actors are lending their supporting to the campaign by Wordsworth’s great great great great granddaughter to keep Rydal Mount in the Lake District open to the public…
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Han Kang Nobel prize lecture book sells 10,000 copies in first day online in South Korea
silverguide.site – Korean retailers report strong sales for Light and Thread, featuring speeches, essays and poems by novelist…
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
silverguide.site – A gosling grows up; a campaign to save trees; the impact of partition; thorny dilemmas; wearing a hijab in Essex and more…
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Where to start with: Terry Pratchett
silverguide.site – Ten years on from his death and just before what would have been his 77th birthday, take a deep dive into the funny, fantasy works of one of the most loved British writers…
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New book to reveal more about scandal of Martin Bashir interview with Princess Diana
silverguide.site – Written with the cooperation of Charles Spencer, and access to BBC emails obtained through freedom of information request, Dianarama promises ‘a radical reappraisal of a major historical event’…
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US writers at growing risk of crackdown on free speech, says PEN America
silverguide.site – China again biggest jailer of writers in 2024, followed by Iran – with Israel in fifth place, says organisation’s annual report…
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