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Ripeness by Sarah Moss – a beautifully written novel of place and identity

silverguide.site – An English woman’s tale of migration, alternating between mid-60s Italy and present-day Ireland, considers family heritage and the treatment of refugees…
Ripeness by Sarah Moss – a beautifully written novel of place and identity
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The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz review – jazz age mystery packed with corpses and charisma

silverguide.site – The actor’s first novel, set on (and sometimes narrated by) a luxury boat in 1925, swerves from cosy Christie homage into something far more brutal…
The Empress Murders by Toby Schmitz review – jazz age mystery packed with corpses and charisma
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Poem of the week: Selling Watermelons by Andrei Voznesensky, translated by Edwin Morgan

silverguide.site – The Russian poet’s playful verse about a Moscow market stall explores ideas of abundance and freedom…
Poem of the week: Selling Watermelons by Andrei Voznesensky, translated by Edwin Morgan
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Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made

silverguide.site – A thoughtful biography attempts to restore the Alice B Toklas author’s posthumous reputation as a founder of modernism…
Gertrude Stein: an Afterlife by Francesca Wade – how a literary legend was made
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The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos review – inside the world of the ultrarich

silverguide.site – An eye-opening account of superyachts, the billionaires who buy them, and what it all means for the rest of us…
The Haves and Have-Yachts by Evan Osnos review – inside the world of the ultrarich
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Alasdair MacIntyre obituary

silverguide.site – Provocative philosopher who argued that current morality has been cut off from its roots ‘largely thanks to the Enlightenment’…
Alasdair MacIntyre obituary
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American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t need to justify my right to write that book’

silverguide.site – Five years after being vilified for exploiting the migrant experience in her bestseller, the author reveals how the backlash inspired her latest novel…
American Dirt author Jeanine Cummins: ‘I didn’t need to justify my right to write that book’
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Original Sin: how Team Biden wished away his decline until it was too late

silverguide.site – Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson issue a stinging verdict on a cover-up that may have cost Democrats the 2024 election…
Original Sin: how Team Biden wished away his decline until it was too late
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Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist

silverguide.site – Mike Berners-Lee tells Hay festival audience to make spread of political deceit more socially embarrassing…
Challenge use of ‘nefarious’ news sources, says environmentalist
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‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq

silverguide.site – The author and activist, who was subject to a fatwa in 2000, has won the prestigious prize for translated fiction with her translator Deepa Bhasthi for her collection of short stories about the lives of Muslim women. They explain why Heart Lamp’s themes ‘are universal’…
‘My legal work sows the seeds of my stories’: International Booker prize winner Banu Mushtaq
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Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

silverguide.site – A girl with super strength; anarchic doughnuts on a mission to rule the world; boys in the Blitz; an Igbo YA fantasy and more…
Children’s and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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Award judges resign after Queensland state library strips writer’s prize over Hamas tweet

silverguide.site – One resignation letter expresses ‘disgust’ over library’s decision to rescind First Nations author’s $15,000 award after arts minister weighs in…
Award judges resign after Queensland state library strips writer’s prize over Hamas tweet
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Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’

silverguide.site – The author and podcaster on taking inspiration from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, welling up to Charles Dickens, and the enduring appeal of Jane Austen…
Andrew Hunter Murray: ‘Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I find more jokes’
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Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’

silverguide.site – The two-time Miles Franklin winner adds the $60,000 prize for women and nonbinary writers to her accolades, for a novel that troubles the line between fiction and memoir…
Michelle de Kretser wins Stella prize for book that ‘expands our notions of what a novel can be’
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The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likable debut with aimless charm

silverguide.site – The critic turned author’s witty, eccentric novel follows a Londoner reading Susan Sontag and looking for love…
The Boys by Leo Robson review – a likable debut with aimless charm
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Nightingale by Laura Elvery review – Florence Nightingale inspires a luminous historical novel

silverguide.site – Elvery’s prose is both sensual and brutal in this richly imagined account of war, memory and the life of history’s most famous nurse…
Nightingale by Laura Elvery review – Florence Nightingale inspires a luminous historical novel
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The Salt Path by Raynor Winn audiobook review – a life-changing journey

silverguide.site – Facing homelessness and incurable illness, a couple sets out on a 630-mile hike in this lyrical memoir read by the author…
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn audiobook review – a life-changing journey
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Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering account of losing two sons

silverguide.site – The novelist’s meditation on grief, memory and radical acceptance contains both horror and comfort…
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li review – a shattering account of losing two sons
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No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

silverguide.site – Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach existential challenges…
No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair
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Tell us about a poem that reminds you of someone you’ve lost

silverguide.site – We would like to hear about the poem that invokes memories of someone you loved and lost…
Tell us about a poem that reminds you of someone you’ve lost
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