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Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something

silverguide.site – An altruistic companion to Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks aims to encourage anyone with a conscience to stop being a spectator…
Moral Ambition by Rutger Bregman review – don’t just stand there, do something
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The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight

silverguide.site – The strange stories of the agents who lived apparently normal lives in the west as part of Soviet espionage programmes make compelling reading…
The Illegals by Shaun Walker review – Russian spies hiding in plain sight
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The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review

silverguide.site – Stephen Witt’s entertaining study of the rise of chip company Nvidia portrays its leader, Jensen Huang, as a remarkable entrepreneur – sometimes energised by anger…
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia and the World’s Most Coveted microchip – review
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Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism

silverguide.site – An Afghan exile’s account of life in war-torn Kabul and a Taliban-dominated refugee camp is an unflinching study of how radicalisation takes root, and his own renunciation of it…
Delusions of Paradise by Maiwand Banayee review – a compelling rejection of fundamentalism
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‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain

silverguide.site – Laurie Lee and Robert Graves among ‘English-speaking Quixotes’ in new book celebrating literary love for all things Spanish…
‘Their pursuits are the cigar and the siesta’: how two centuries of British writers helped forge our view of Spain
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Go-to author on White House reverses take on Biden and slams former president

silverguide.site – Chris Whipple’s third book, Uncharted, hits Biden and aides like a bludgeon, with key sources who speak on the record…
Go-to author on White House reverses take on Biden and slams former president
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Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers

silverguide.site – This immersive exploration of how we experience the nocturnal world is beautifully illuminating…
Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards review – night owls of all feathers
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Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin

silverguide.site – Zink’s seventh novel, about a night of conversation and adventure, is full of wit and marvellous writing, but ultimately trails off…
Sister Europe by Nell Zink review – ramshackle wanderers in Berlin
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In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review

silverguide.site – Long-buried truths leave siblings reeling when their father dies; a fascinating reclamation of Homer’s forgotten women; and still waters run deep in a centuries-spanning novel…
In brief: The Homemade God; Mythica; There Are Rivers in the Sky – review
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The North Road by Rob Cowen review – the poetry and pain of Britain’s backbone

silverguide.site – A beautifully written study of our longest numbered route, the A1, is full of rich asides and haunting explorations, conjuring the visual pleasure of a road movie…
The North Road by Rob Cowen review – the poetry and pain of Britain’s backbone
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Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’

silverguide.site – The American author on the follow-up to her bestselling debut Such a Fun Age, why she loves characters you want to shake, and reading 160 novels for the Booker prize…
Novelist Kiley Reid: ‘Consumption cannot fix racism’
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‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata

silverguide.site – The Convenience Store Woman author is renowned for challenging social norms in darkly weird near-future fiction. She discusses sex, feminism and her struggles to be an ‘ordinary earthling’…
‘Marriage feels like a hostage situation, and motherhood a curse’: Japanese author Sayaka Murata
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The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’

silverguide.site – Mary Annette Pember’s expansive book Medicine River looks at the many ways the US has tried to dehumanise and eradicate Native families…
The devastating legacy of Native boarding schools: ‘no way people can apologize it away’
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‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

silverguide.site – The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativity…
‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?
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In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

silverguide.site – A poet’s memoir of family, trauma, and Virginia Woolf pulses with feeling and intelligence…
In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land
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The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

silverguide.site – The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamics…
The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch
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JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner

silverguide.site – Doyenne of children’s literature has regularly utilised social media in support of women-only spaces…
JK Rowling’s journey from Harry Potter creator to gender-critical campaigner
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Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity

silverguide.site – Narrator Meera Simhan draws out the dreamlike atmosphere of a young Indian woman’s quest through Mexico to find out more about her mother…
Rosarita by Anita Desai audiobook review – a moving tale of memory and identity
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

silverguide.site – Fair Play by Louise Hegarty; All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman; This Is Not a Game by Kelly Mullen; The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie; Death and Other Occupations by Veronika Dapunt…
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
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Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?

silverguide.site – A woman tries to cling on to her parent’s Judeo-Arabic language – and the food, feeling and history that goes with it…
Chopping Onions on My Heart by Samantha Ellis review – can you save a culture?
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