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Lázár by Nelio Biedermann review – a Hungarian epic from a 22-year-old author

silverguide.site – The fortunes of a single family are entwined with the turmoil of the 20th century in this ambitious, gothic-inflected debut…
Lázár by Nelio Biedermann review – a Hungarian epic from a 22-year-old author
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Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks review – the writing secrets of Stephen King

silverguide.site – A deep dive into the horror novelist’s archives reveals pedantry, penny-pinching, and a total redraft of Carrie…
Monsters in the Archives by Caroline Bicks review – the writing secrets of Stephen King
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My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’

silverguide.site – Deborah Green was a charismatic woman who established a ‘free love ministry’ in California, claiming to be a vessel for God. She was also a controlling, cruel sadist. Her daughter Sarah talks about her terrifying upbringing – and dramatic escape…
My mom, the cult leader: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’
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‘I was in the pit of despair’: Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer

silverguide.site – As a child, Brown was underestimated, infantilised and dismissed by specialists and teachers. Now 28, he has written an acclaimed debut novel set in an adult day care centre that gives people like him a voice…
‘I was in the pit of despair’: Non-speaking autistic novelist Woody Brown on his journey from write-off to writer
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Richard Meier obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Poet whose work distilled everyday observations with beauty and precision…
Richard Meier obituary
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Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

silverguide.site – Musical inspiration from Corinne Bailey Rae; danger in a magical academy; the adventures of an otter pup; a YA queer gothic fantasy, and more…
Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels
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No New York by Adele Bertei review – a vivid, vibrant musical coming of age

silverguide.site – 1970s and 80s New York are viscerally evoked in this potent memoir of the ‘no wave’ scene…
No New York by Adele Bertei review – a vivid, vibrant musical coming of age
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A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman review – a masterful, palpable examination of loss

silverguide.site – In her follow-up to The Light Between Oceans, the Western Australian author follows generations of a farming family as they weather calamity and change…
A Far-flung Life by ML Stedman review – a masterful, palpable examination of loss
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Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob wins Waterstones children’s book prize

silverguide.site – Huw Aaron’s tale of a green blob reading to its child takes overall prize, while Janeen Hayat wins in the young readers category and SF Williamson in the older readers…
Sleep Tight, Disgusting Blob wins Waterstones children’s book prize
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‘Effortlessly hip’: two novels named joint winners of Queen Mary small press fiction prize

silverguide.site – Rebecca Gransden’s Figures Crossing the Field Towards the Group and Nell Osborne’s Ghost Driver ‘crossed the line together’ to take award previously known as the Republic of Consciousness prize…
‘Effortlessly hip’: two novels named joint winners of Queen Mary small press fiction prize
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The Two Roberts by Damian Barr audiobook review – love and lost dreams in bohemian London

silverguide.site – This fictionalised account of the relationship between real-life artists Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun vividly depicts their romance and rise to fame – and the fall from grace that followed…
The Two Roberts by Damian Barr audiobook review – love and lost dreams in bohemian London
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Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition

silverguide.site – Judges praised the ‘emotional stakes’ of Partridge Boswell’s poem The Gathering, which took the £5,000 top prize…
Poem about ‘relentlessness of the news cycle’ wins National Poetry Competition
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First Queen’s reading medal goes to Black British book festival founder Selina Brown

silverguide.site – The founder of Europe’s largest celebration of Black literature and champion of inclusive reading becomes Queen Camilla’s inaugural National Reading Hero…
First Queen’s reading medal goes to Black British book festival founder Selina Brown
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Glenn Storhaug obituary

silverguide.site – Other lives: Poet and publisher who founded Five Seasons Press in the late 1970s to share his enthusiasm of the form…
Glenn Storhaug obituary
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Arundhati Roy and Lyse Doucet lead ‘exceptional’ Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist

silverguide.site – Roy’s memoir Mother Mary Comes to Me and Doucet’s The Finest Hotel in Kabul are joined by books on exile by Ece Temelkuran and Judith Mackrell and an ode to the arts by Daisy Fancourt…
Arundhati Roy and Lyse Doucet lead ‘exceptional’ Women’s prize for nonfiction shortlist
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Black Bag by Luke Kennard review – a campus comedy for our end times

silverguide.site – Drawing on a real-life 1960s experiment, this story of an out-of-work actor paid to cover himself in a black leather bag fizzes with wit and invention…
Black Bag by Luke Kennard review – a campus comedy for our end times
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The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – the strange case of Graham Greene and Kim Philby

silverguide.site – Sex, booze and subterfuge in the story of an extraordinary friendship at the heart of MI6…
The Writer and the Traitor by Robert Verkaik review – the strange case of Graham Greene and Kim Philby
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Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show

silverguide.site – Comedian and avid Tolkien fan to write the Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past, a new Peter Jackson-produced film based on unadapted chapters of The Fellowship of the Ring…
Stephen Colbert to write new Lord of the Rings film after end of the Late Show
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Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction

silverguide.site – Anna Dempsey’s This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers…
Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction
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Enough Said by Alan Bennett review – a man for all seasons

silverguide.site – Nostalgia, shame and gossip from Alan Bennett in the fourth instalment of his diaries…
Enough Said by Alan Bennett review – a man for all seasons
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