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António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments

silverguide.site – With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose…
António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments
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António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83

silverguide.site – Author of more than 30 novels, including Fado Alexandrino and The Inquisitors’ Manual, was widely seen as one of the most important voices in modern Portuguese literature…
António Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83
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From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now

silverguide.site – AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times…
From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now
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The best recent poetry – review roundup

silverguide.site – Gravity Archives by Andrew Motion; Rabbitbox by Wayne Holloway-Smith; Strange Architectures by JL Williams; I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken…
The best recent poetry – review roundup
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Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’

silverguide.site – The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark…
Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’
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The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read

silverguide.site – A decaying gothic mansion tells the story of the family who once lived there, in this pitch-perfect debut of disappearances, betrayal and despair…
The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read
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Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day

silverguide.site – As children dress up in UK and Ireland on Thursday, not everyone is on the same page over event’s pros and cons…
Extra stress or a bit of fun? Teachers and parents discuss World Book Day
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From thermal underwear to ‘hairy’ jam: World Book Day titles take over UK book chart

silverguide.site – Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey: Total Chaos! was No 1 in the chart last week as the Top 10 was dominated by the charity’s discounted children’s reads ahead of annual event…
From thermal underwear to ‘hairy’ jam: World Book Day titles take over UK book chart
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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review – a topical time-hopping romance

silverguide.site – Actor Katie Leung narrates this genre-bending debut in which an Victorian Arctic explorer is catapulted into our brave new world…
The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley audiobook review – a topical time-hopping romance
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Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell review – brilliantly, terrifyingly plausible

silverguide.site – In this wild little miracle of a book, an Australian government office is tasked with cataloguing the casualties of the Anthropocene…
Department of the Vanishing by Johanna Bell review – brilliantly, terrifyingly plausible
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Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a horny queer fantasy: the best Australian books out in March

silverguide.site – Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on…
Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a horny queer fantasy: the best Australian books out in March
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Gloria Don’t Speak by Lucy Apps review – tender portrait of a woman with a learning disability

silverguide.site – Longlisted for the Women’s prize, this ambitious debut journeys into the inner world of a vulnerable teenager who is left traumatised by a toxic friendship…
Gloria Don’t Speak by Lucy Apps review – tender portrait of a woman with a learning disability
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Tales of the Suburbs by John Grindrod review – an entertaining alternative history of queer Britain

silverguide.site – From London’s commuter belt to the country village gay club, these portraits of LGBTQ+ life are filled with humour, compassion and observational flair…
Tales of the Suburbs by John Grindrod review – an entertaining alternative history of queer Britain
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Claire Lynch wins Nero Gold prize for debut about 1980s homophobia

silverguide.site – The £30,000 award went to novel A Family Matter, about a lesbian affair and a custody battle…
Claire Lynch wins Nero Gold prize for debut about 1980s homophobia
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Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction

silverguide.site – Sixteen novels are in contention for the £30,000 award, now in its 31st year, with settings ranging from climate-ravaged islands to a near-future Kolkata…
Susan Choi and Katie Kitamura among authors longlisted for Women’s prize for fiction
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Share your views: how do you feel about World Book Day?

silverguide.site – Do you love it or is it time to put it quietly back on the shelf?…
Share your views: how do you feel about World Book Day?
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Chasing Freedom by Simukai Chigudu review – a powerful memoir of postcolonial unease

silverguide.site – A historian and exponent of ‘Rhodes must fall’ explores how political liberation doesn’t always bring personal freedom…
Chasing Freedom by Simukai Chigudu review – a powerful memoir of postcolonial unease
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The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire

silverguide.site – Thirty-five years on from his debut collection The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Self takes aim at London’s chattering classes in an excoriating vision of moral decline…
The Quantity Theory of Morality by Will Self review – raucously inventive state-of-the-nation satire
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Arts Council England faces legal threat over magazine’s withdrawal of poet’s work

silverguide.site – Publicly funded journal pulled poem citing writer’s ‘social media presence’, with solicitors alleging discrimination over gender-critical views…
Arts Council England faces legal threat over magazine’s withdrawal of poet’s work
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Send us your questions for Michael Rosen

silverguide.site – As he turns 80 this year, we’re inviting fans of the author to ask him the questions they’ve always wanted to ask…
Send us your questions for Michael Rosen
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