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Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie review – the joy of the hatchet job

silverguide.site – Is giving an artist a one-star review an act of abuse? An influential theatre critic finds out in this smart story of #MeToo-era revenge…
Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie review – the joy of the hatchet job
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Letter: Duncan Campbell obituary

silverguide.site – Sylvia Beales writes: Duncan Campbell understood the importance of truth and justice…
Letter: Duncan Campbell obituary
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Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence

silverguide.site – A former music journalist’s exploration of how we listen is informed by her life-changing experience of motherhood…
Hark by Alice Vincent audiobook review – a search for silence
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Wait Here by Lucy Nelson review – stories of childless women that are complex and wonderfully varied

silverguide.site – Instead of reducing its characters to one-dimensional traits, this debut collection is a compassionate rendering of the many different ways to shape a family and a life…
Wait Here by Lucy Nelson review – stories of childless women that are complex and wonderfully varied
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Carnegie medal for writing: Margaret McDonald named youngest ever winner

silverguide.site – The 27-year-old’s prizewinning debut, Glasgow Boys, is a coming-of-age novel about the friendship between two boys who have grown up in the care system…
Carnegie medal for writing: Margaret McDonald named youngest ever winner
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How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life

silverguide.site – In this frank, exposing memoir, Jong-Fast reflects on her dysfunctional upbringing as her family falls apart…
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jong-Fast review – Erica Jong’s daughter on the worst year of her life
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UK audiobook revenue up by almost a third last year

silverguide.site – Income from audiobooks reached a record £268m in 2024, according to figures from the Publishers Association…
UK audiobook revenue up by almost a third last year
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The 10 best audiobooks for summer

silverguide.site – To soundtrack those long, lazy afternoons try Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s torrid love affair, a real-life pirate of the Caribbean or Peter Dinklage as Hercule Poirot…
The 10 best audiobooks for summer
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The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain

silverguide.site – From buzzards in Oxfordshire to cranes in Kent – how once common birds left their mark in British place names…
The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael Warren review – a magical ornithological history of Britain
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Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut

silverguide.site – A young gay Black man escapes from grief into the hedonism of upper-echelon New York, in a lyrical tale of redemption…
Great Black Hope by Rob Franklin review – privilege and race intersect in a fine debut
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Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced

silverguide.site – Six ‘inspiring new voices’ made the list, which features a Saltburn-style summer holiday and a Swedish bestseller…
Waterstones debut fiction prize 2025 shortlist announced
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‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?

silverguide.site – A harrowing new book looks back at a dark period of US history as the Johns committee targeted Black and queer Americans, drawing parallels to what’s happening now…
‘We live in a second Red Scare’: what can we learn from a chilling book about Florida’s past?
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Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year

silverguide.site – In this page-turning romance, teenage sweethearts reunite as thirtysomething women…
Ordinary Love by Marie Rutkoski review – some of the best sex scenes I’ve read this year
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Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration

silverguide.site – An ambitious meditation on the ability of narrative to shape our perceptions of one another and our experience of home…
Sanctuary by Marina Warner review – the power of stories in an age of migration
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Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend

silverguide.site – The author, who parlayed her experience into the award-winning novel The Spare Room, recently re-lived it while watching the stage adaptation…
Helen Garner reflects on the ‘three worst weeks of my life’ caring for a dying friend
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‘It’s not quite what I had in mind entering my eighth decade’: the London librarian of Lesbos

silverguide.site – Rather than retiring to Greece, 71-year-old Ruth Miller created ‘a sanctuary of hope and healing’ in a refugee camp…
‘It’s not quite what I had in mind entering my eighth decade’: the London librarian of Lesbos
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‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!

silverguide.site – Her rhyming tales have enchanted children and parents the world over – but which is the best? From a busker’s cat to a greedy rat, it’s time to rate the hits…
‘Oh no! It’s a Gruffalo!’ Julia Donaldson’s 15 best books – ranked!
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Parents: what is your child’s favourite Julia Donaldson book?

silverguide.site – We would like to hear from parents about their child’s favourite Julia Donaldson story, and why…
Parents: what is your child’s favourite Julia Donaldson book?
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Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska

silverguide.site – Gifts sent from a loved one abroad at first bring warmth and joy, then grave alarm…
Poem of the week: This Year Her Present by Victoria Melkovska
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The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things

silverguide.site – From Picasso to Joyce, we’re hopelessly in thrall to the fallacy of the all-conquering intellect. Or are we?…
The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis review – bright wrong things
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