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From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!

silverguide.site – From frontline reporting to a trailblazing comic novel and a prophetic dystopia, which of Eric Blair’s books is the best?…
From Burma to Big Brother: George Orwell’s best books – ranked!
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The Leveret By Anna Goldreich review – a hare mends the pain of baby loss

silverguide.site – This bold debut about a woman finding healing after a late miscarriage is written with utter conviction…
The Leveret By Anna Goldreich review – a hare mends the pain of baby loss
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence

silverguide.site – A vivid and entertaining polemnic on the economics of the tech revolution, filled with righteous ire…
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow review – the real price of artificial intelligence
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Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out

silverguide.site – Thanks to rushed deadlines, financial pressure and overworked staff, titles are going to market before they’re ready – and then sliding from view immediately…
Australia is publishing books too quickly – and everyone is losing out
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Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy

silverguide.site – Literary magazine will no longer engage in ‘external publishing partnerships’ after Commonwealth prize furore…
Granta stops publishing short story award winners over AI controversy
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Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’

silverguide.site – The breakout success of her debut created a publishing scramble for Black writers, but has that appetite for diversity endured? Carty-Williams talks about wanting to quit the TV adaptation, why now is the perfect time for her sequel…
Candice Carty-Williams: ‘People feel very attached to Queenie’
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The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

silverguide.site – The Pinnacle by Abir Mukherjee; A Violent Masterpiece by Jordan Harper; Murder on the Red River by Marcie R Rendon; The Devoted by Catherine Cho; The Repentants by Kate Foster…
The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup
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Disability by David Turner review – a revelatory new history

silverguide.site – This study of the struggle for rights includes incredible personal stories that we should all be more familiar with…
Disability by David Turner review – a revelatory new history
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The Sisters of Serendib by Ayesha Inoon review – Sri Lankan asylum seekers seek a safer life in Australia

silverguide.site – Inoon’s second novel follows three sisters settling in a new land, in a book that glosses over darker moments and trauma in favour of hope…
The Sisters of Serendib by Ayesha Inoon review – Sri Lankan asylum seekers seek a safer life in Australia
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The Lonely City by Olivia Laing audiobook review – solitude and creativity in Manhattan

silverguide.site – Tilda Swinton makes her audiobook debut with this landmark study of how New York artists from Edward Hopper to Andy Warhol have lived with loneliness…
The Lonely City by Olivia Laing audiobook review – solitude and creativity in Manhattan
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A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch review – a sparkling, subversive debut

silverguide.site – With its echoes of Miranda July’s All Fours, this tragicomic tale of an American woman’s illicit romance is also a gripping murder mystery…
A Little Bit Bad by Cassandra Neyenesch review – a sparkling, subversive debut
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Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death

silverguide.site – In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life …
Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death
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Morbid by Saul Justin Newman review – why everything you think you know about longevity is wrong

silverguide.site – Is Japan really full of centenarians? And what about ‘blue zones’? A brilliant skewering of ageing secrets and lies…
Morbid by Saul Justin Newman review – why everything you think you know about longevity is wrong
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Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir

silverguide.site – After ‘bottling everything up for a long time’ the faithful pet, who has remained silent for many years, will spill the beans on the pair’s ‘pet hates and fur-vent passions’…
Cracking sleaze, Gromit: Wallace’s long-suffering canine companion to tell all in memoir
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Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year

silverguide.site – Miss Lambert Steps Aboard Danger is the first novel from the Nobel laureate since 2021’s Klara and the Sun and draws on the author’s love of music, art and Golden Age cinema…
Kazuo Ishiguro announces 1930s spy caper to be published next year
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The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?

silverguide.site – This fascinating intellectual history takes us from Thomas More to Ursula K Le Guin…
The Uses of Utopia by Joad Raymond Wren review – can the ideal society ever exist?
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Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster

silverguide.site – Parenting is represented in all its hilarious, moving and truthfully plodding detail, in the story of a mother and her two little boys…
Natural Disaster by Lisa Owens review – the last day of maternity leave is a comic rollercoaster
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Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American

silverguide.site – The life of the Brooklyn Bridge’s chief engineer inspires this multifaceted novel…
Wash by Erica Wagner review – vivid portrait of a monumental American
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Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature

silverguide.site – This corrective to our habitual emphasis on competition had me writing ‘wow’ in the margins again and again…
Togetherness by Rowan Hooper review – a stunning portrait of cooperation in nature
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‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist

silverguide.site – With an adaptation of Night and Day hitting cinemas, the pioneering author’s work continues to inspire audiences…
‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
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