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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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John Loveday obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Headteacher who wrote a novel, a children’s book, several volumes of poetry and a memoir…
John Loveday obituary
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The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana review – a startling road trip as original as it is timely

silverguide.site – Two discontented young men embark on a journey that the reader quickly knows will be violent and doomed – and yet this novel remains almost unbearably tense…
The Passenger Seat by Vijay Khurana review – a startling road trip as original as it is timely
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The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill

silverguide.site – The philanthropist offers sensible advice about moving on and ditching perfectionism, but you get the impression she is struggling to take it herself…
The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill
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Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody

silverguide.site – The privileged world of Bloomsbury group is vividly evoked in this novel of a life shaped by devastating loss…
Days of Light by Megan Hunter review – Bohemian rhapsody
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The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick

silverguide.site – From frogs to ferrets, an eye-opening account of the ways we affect the health of other species – and vice versa…
The Elephant in the Room by Liz Kalaugher review – how we make animals sick
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Martin Lee obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Print consultant who worked with leading designers to produce high-end books such as Designed by Apple in California…
Martin Lee obituary
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A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles

silverguide.site – The book-posting operations have had a huge market impact, but will publishing their own titles cost them their serendipitous magic?…
A new chapter for publishing? Book subscription services launch their own titles
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Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula

silverguide.site – ‘Lord forgive me. I am quite shameless’, author playfully wrote in note weeks after horror novel published in 1897…
Rare letter offers glimpse into Bram Stoker’s early thoughts on Dracula
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Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review – teenage dreams

silverguide.site – The tale of a 17-year-old Irish boy’s painful summer of romance and uncertain friendship captures the tenderness and menace of young men …
Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh review – teenage dreams
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We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain

silverguide.site – A deft, documentary-like portrait of 70s and 80s Black British culture outside London…
We Were There by Lanre Bakare review – reimagining Black Britain
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Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness

silverguide.site – An actor’s story becomes a thrillingly radical deconstruction of family relationships and the social roles we play…
Audition by Katie Kitamura review – a literary performance of true uncanniness
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Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display

silverguide.site – The book about the trial of William Corder, publicly executed and dissected after being convicted of murdering his lover, is bound using his skin…
Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display
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‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah

silverguide.site – On what would have been the late dub poet’s 67th birthday, his musical collaborators remember his warmth, invigorating words and reflections on the state of the world…
‘His delivery cut through class barriers’: Moby, Mala and other musicians on working with Benjamin Zephaniah
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Crime and thrillers of the month – review

silverguide.site – A couple’s struggle to survive a serial killer, a prank that goes terribly wrong – and the hunt for an old friend who went missing in the woods…
Crime and thrillers of the month – review
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Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait

silverguide.site – Journalist Joel Budd travels around Britain demolishing Brexit myths in a nuanced study of a social group too often reduced to a cartoon by politicians…
Underdogs: The Truth About Britain’s White Working Class review – a complicated class portrait
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HBO reveals first part of Harry Potter TV cast, including Dumbledore and Hagrid

silverguide.site – John Lithgow confirmed in Dumbledore role, with Paapa Essiedu playing Severus Snape and Nick Frost as Hagrid…
HBO reveals first part of Harry Potter TV cast, including Dumbledore and Hagrid
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‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction

silverguide.site – His breakthrough book was deemed too inflammatory to be taught in my school, and was burned by authorities, but this Peruvian firebrand would reveal himself to be a man of contradictions…
‘We waited greedily for his novels’: Mario Vargas Llosa, a revolutionary of Spanish-language fiction
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