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Post your questions for Stephen King

silverguide.site – As a film adaptation of the prolific US author’s The Life of Chuck hits screens, it’s your chance to ask about anything from The Shining to the number 13…
Post your questions for Stephen King
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Groundwater by Thomas McMullan review – a lesson in foreboding

silverguide.site – A sense of menace hangs over a couple’s attempt to make a fresh start in lakeside seclusion, but the tensions too often sputter out…
Groundwater by Thomas McMullan review – a lesson in foreboding
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The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith review – cultural history of a noble tree

silverguide.site – An enthusiastic and scholarly guide to a noble tree that has been used in herbal medicine and shipbuilding, and romanticised in poetry…
The Lost Elms by Mandy Haggith review – cultural history of a noble tree
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‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image

silverguide.site – It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?…
‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image
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Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – the liberal who hates leftists

silverguide.site – In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action…
Summer of Our Discontent by Thomas Chatterton Williams review – the liberal who hates leftists
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The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age

silverguide.site – This posthumously published final collection confronts mortality, alongside the world’s almost unbearable beauty…
The Empire of Forgetting by John Burnside review – last words from an essential poet of our age
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Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle

silverguide.site – The relentless cycle of human violence plays out as a brutal symbolic game…
Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle
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Father Figure by Emma Forrest review – a slippery tale of teenage obsession

silverguide.site – Bristling with sexual, political and emotional angst, this finely tuned coming-of-age tale thrives on the grey areas of adolescence…
Father Figure by Emma Forrest review – a slippery tale of teenage obsession
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The Parallel Path by Jenn Ashworth review – a soul-searching walk across England

silverguide.site – Forget the Salt Path – this writer’s introspective journey provides genuine food for thought…
The Parallel Path by Jenn Ashworth review – a soul-searching walk across England
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‘Coupledom is very oppressing’: Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel

silverguide.site – As her million-selling 70s novel, Engagement, is translated into English for the first time, the Swedish author talks about life at 80, finding the ideal love, and why her generation were freer than today’s young people…
‘Coupledom is very oppressing’: Swedish author Gun-Britt Sundström on the revival of her cult anti-marriage novel
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Should we ban opinion polls?

silverguide.site – They claim to reflect public sentiment. But they’re better thought of as just another species of misinformation…
Should we ban opinion polls?
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‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list

silverguide.site – Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him…
‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list
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‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

silverguide.site – When he left the Soviet Union for a new life in America, the novelist never imagined he would live under another authoritarian regime. Then Trump got back into power ... Is it time to move again?…
‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’
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The Rev John Heywood Thomas obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Theologian of note and proud champion of the Welsh language…
The Rev John Heywood Thomas obituary
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The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup

silverguide.site – Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson; Kill Your Darlings by Peter Swanson; The Good Liar by Denise Mina; The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun; Gunner by Alan Parks…
The best recent crime and thrillers – roundup
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Remember When by Fiona Phillips review – an unsparing insight into early-onset Alzheimer’s

silverguide.site – The journalist’s memoir of events leading up to her diagnosis, aged 61, is a moving account of a life slowly unravelling…
Remember When by Fiona Phillips review – an unsparing insight into early-onset Alzheimer’s
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Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov review – how it feels to lose a father

silverguide.site – The International Booker winner explores Bulgarian family life under communism in this moving depiction of a son’s bereavement…
Death and the Gardener by Georgi Gospodinov review – how it feels to lose a father
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New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘He’s not that person at all’

silverguide.site – In Midnight on the Potomac, author Scott Ellsworth looks back at the tumultuous last year of the US civil war…
New book sheds light on Lincoln’s misunderstood killer: ‘He’s not that person at all’
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Is the veracity of memoirs that important? | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Readers respond to the controversy surrounding The Salt Path, whose author has been accused of blurring the truth…
Is the veracity of memoirs that important? | Letters
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David Boyle obituary

silverguide.site – Political economist and author who promoted ideas such as time banks and community sharing…
David Boyle obituary
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