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My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review – how to make it in crypto

silverguide.site – Amusing oddballs populate a wise-cracking wheeler-dealer’s tale of leaving London for Dubai in search of loot and laughs…
My Bags Are Big by Tibor Fischer review – how to make it in crypto

Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards

silverguide.site – Poet’s second collection The Rot won the Victorian prize for literature and the Indigenous writing category…
Evelyn Araluen wins $125,000 for ‘politically uncompromising’ poetry at Victorian premier’s literary awards

Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir

silverguide.site – A compelling and fitfully harrowing child’s-eye account of a mother’s unravelling…
Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block review – a true ‘Misery’ memoir

Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist

silverguide.site – Thirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000…
Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist

‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

silverguide.site – The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read…
‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback

Suckerfish by Ashani Lewis review – the ordeals of having a difficult mother

silverguide.site – This is a wry and likably feisty account of the destructive power an unstable parent can wield over her offspring…
Suckerfish by Ashani Lewis review – the ordeals of having a difficult mother

Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review – a dazzling wartime fantasy

silverguide.site – Dark magic, fascism and romance in blitz-stricken London: this exuberant novel is a popcorny delight…
Nonesuch by Francis Spufford review – a dazzling wartime fantasy

Lord of the Flies, diverse casting and themes of racial identity | Letters

silverguide.site – Letters: Readers on the criticism levelled at Jack Thorne’s adaptation of William Golding’s book…
Lord of the Flies, diverse casting and themes of racial identity | Letters

Tell us: what have you been reading this month?

silverguide.site – We would like to hear about the books you’ve particularly enjoyed this month…
Tell us: what have you been reading this month?

As If by Isabel Waidner review – surreal doppelganger story

silverguide.site – Two uncannily similar men switch places in an existential farce that playfully explores the precarity of working life…
As If by Isabel Waidner review – surreal doppelganger story

Politics Without Politicians by Hélène Landemore review – power to the people

silverguide.site – Can a radical proposal to get rid of career politicians really be implemented?…
Politics Without Politicians by Hélène Landemore review – power to the people

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

silverguide.site – It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows…
Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

silverguide.site – I have made the leap from literary fiction to fantasy – for those who think it’s mere wish-fulfilment, here’s why we need that thing with the dragons…
Myth, monsters and making sense of a disenchanted world: why everyone is reading fantasy

‘Last year I read 137 books’: could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?

silverguide.site – BookTok influencer Jack Edwards motivates himself with reading goals – and he’s not alone. Authors and avid readers discuss the rise of metrics, and reveal how many books they finished last year…
‘Last year I read 137 books’: could setting targets help you put down your phone and pick up a book?

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

silverguide.site – The Barbecue at No 9 by Jennie Godfrey; A Sociopath’s Guide to a Successful Marriage by MK Oliver; A Bad, Bad Place by Frances Crawford; Holy Boy by Lee Heejoo; A Stranger in Corfu by Alex Preston…
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

I’ll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert review – are they fantasists or psychopaths?

silverguide.site – The dark past of a seemingly perfect couple is gradually revealed in this observant debut of obsession and control…
I’ll Be the Monster by Sean Gilbert review – are they fantasists or psychopaths?

Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

silverguide.site – Leaving behind Cumbria for Oxford in the late 1950s, Bragg navigates class and culture in a world on the brink of change…
Another World by Melvyn Bragg review – portrait of the broadcaster as a young man

Old Songs by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns review – ancient tales of murder, maidens and magic

silverguide.site – These interconnected short stories of love and death, inspired by traditional ballads from the British Isles, are narrated with immediacy and warmth…
Old Songs by Amy Jeffs and Gwen Burns review – ancient tales of murder, maidens and magic

Bird Deity by John Morrissey review – darkly satirical science fiction about the cost of empire

silverguide.site – In his debut novel, the Kalkadoon writer uses the cosmic distance of an alien planet to illuminate our own…
Bird Deity by John Morrissey review – darkly satirical science fiction about the cost of empire

Trip to the Moon by John Yorke review – a storytelling handbook in dire need of an edit

silverguide.site – A producer shares his tips for tight storylines, but they’re marred by verbal incontinence and hyperbole…
Trip to the Moon by John Yorke review – a storytelling handbook in dire need of an edit
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