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What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

silverguide.site – Max Porter, Daisy Johnson, Avni Doshi and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments…
What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in July

The best recent poetry – review roundup

silverguide.site – Small Birds Singing by Matthew Welton; The Channel by Jana Prikryl; Stepmother by Helen Mort; Drunken Driving by Martina Evans…
The best recent poetry – review roundup

Jacqueline Crooks: ‘Toni Morrison’s voice made me want to find my own’

silverguide.site – The novelist on learning empathy from Charles Dickens, the playfulness of Irenosen Okojie and avoiding Jane Austen…
Jacqueline Crooks: ‘Toni Morrison’s voice made me want to find my own’

Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

silverguide.site – This bold family saga explores a search for healing and truth in the aftermath of the Rwanda genocide…
Jacaranda by Gaël Faye review – the limits of forgiveness after Rwanda

Rite of Spring by Kris Kneen review – a woman’s sexual awakening lurks in the ocean’s depths

silverguide.site – A couple sign up as lighthouse keepers on an isolated island off Tasmania. But Miranda is on the cusp of a transformation – and sex is everywhere…
Rite of Spring by Kris Kneen review – a woman’s sexual awakening lurks in the ocean’s depths

Helm by Sarah Hall audiobook review – a breath of fresh air from the Pennines

silverguide.site – Louise Brealey teases out the playful and poetic moments of these shapeshifting stories, told from the perspective of the northeasterly wind and those it has wreaked chaos on through the ages…
Helm by Sarah Hall audiobook review – a breath of fresh air from the Pennines

Mario Vargas Llosa by Gerald Martin review – the passions and politics of Peru’s Nobel laureate

silverguide.site – This stylish biography of the author traces his journey from left to right, and from ‘posh Lima’ to Cricklewood…
Mario Vargas Llosa by Gerald Martin review – the passions and politics of Peru’s Nobel laureate

Dua Lipa to interview Zadie Smith at London Literature festival

silverguide.site – The pop star is curating the 2026 festival, which also features Patti Smith, Mustafa and Ta-Nehisi Coates, as part of the Southbank Centre’s anniversary year…
Dua Lipa to interview Zadie Smith at London Literature festival

Alive by Melanie Challenger review – a maverick study of what it means to have a body

silverguide.site – In this disorienting book, a poet argues we have been looking at nature – and ourselves – the wrong way…
Alive by Melanie Challenger review – a maverick study of what it means to have a body

Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli review – a mother and daughter’s odyssey

silverguide.site – This journey of discovery from the US to Sicily tackles urgent themes, but is increasingly inward-looking…
Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli review – a mother and daughter’s odyssey

Don McRaild obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Historian who produced groundbreaking research on Irish Catholic and Protestant immigration, and labour history…
Don McRaild obituary

Ian McDonald obituary

silverguide.site – Trinidad-born author and poet whose novel The Humming-Bird Tree is a classic of Caribbean literature…
Ian McDonald obituary

This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

silverguide.site – Marlon James, Douglas Stuart and Elizabeth Strout may be names we know, but there’s a welcome element of absurdism and surrealist thought here…
This Booker longlist may have two previous winners, but it’s keen to experiment

Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead a Brit-heavy Booker prize longlist

silverguide.site – Chair of judges Mary Beard said each of the 13 books in contention for the £50,000 award ‘takes the reader to new places’…
Previous winners Douglas Stuart and Marlon James lead a Brit-heavy Booker prize longlist

Underdogs by Louise Powell review – a powerful debut with plenty of northern soul

silverguide.site – A bereaved father and son bond over greyhound racing in an east Durham town in terminal decline…
Underdogs by Louise Powell review – a powerful debut with plenty of northern soul

Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high places

silverguide.site – The writer and climber brings colour and carnival to his account of a country and people shaped by its mountains…
Upland by Ed Douglas review – a glorious survey of Britain’s high places

Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason review – a tale of literary obsession, with cameos from real-life authors

silverguide.site – A heartbroken woman becomes fixated on a famous writer in this witty, touching follow-up to Sorrow and Bliss…
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason review – a tale of literary obsession, with cameos from real-life authors

What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

silverguide.site – The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers…
What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse

Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel

silverguide.site – Half a century on, this tale of a woman who abandons her children in search of her self remains thrillingly original…
Gaining Ground by Joan Barfoot review – Anne Enright celebrates a landmark feminist novel

Tony Williams obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Film expert who wrote books on the cinema and was a lecturer at Southern Illinois University in the US…
Tony Williams obituary
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