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FAIR package manager in the group Help and Support: 1 month agoFAIR package manager
The Linux Foundation has announced the FAIR package manager for WordPress. This will be an independent and neutral plugin and theme package […] -
Blog: Love Forms by Claire Adam review – the power of a mother’s loss from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month agoForty years on, a Trinidadian woman has never stopped looking for the daughter she gave up for adoption, in a quietly devastating novelClaire Adam’s 2019 novel Golde […]
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Blog: Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way by Elaine Feeney review – a satisfying tale of memory and place from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoStories within stories give fascinating depth to the prize-winning author’s third novel, about a woman’s return to her family home in the west of IrelandElaine Fee […]
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Word gangs, clones, and pacing in the group Thanet Creative: Writers: 1 month, 1 week agoWord gangs, clones, and pacing
Editing. A thing very much unlike writing as much as it is the same thing. I have found editing my work a paradox of both being like writing and […] -
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Dominic Nolan on Historical Crime Fiction, London, and Cycles of Violence in the group Outside News: 1 month, 1 week agoDominic Nolan on Historical Crime Fiction, London, and Cycles of Violence
I saw this from November 2024. Subtitle: A conversation with the author of ‘White City’ I don’t even remember how I came across Vine Street, B […] -
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Blog: ‘He changed the rules for all of us who came after’: Lee Child remembers Frederick Forsyth from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoForsyth did away with the conventions of thriller-writing and still kept readers enthralled. He reset the whole genre, the author of the Jack Reacher novels […]
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Blog: How Not to Be a Political Wife by Sarah Vine review – a bitter memoir of power and betrayal from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoShe was Michael Gove’s wife and Samantha Cameron’s best friend. But then Brexit happenedPolitics is awful.If you want the digested read of Sarah Vine’s memoir on li […]
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Blog: Edinburgh book festival to focus on hope with line-up including Kureishi and Sturgeon from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoFormer footballer Ally McCoist also among guests as festival seeks to broaden its appealThe Edinburgh book festival is to champion the positive power of hope later […]
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Blog: Against Identity by Alexander Douglas review – a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoA philosopher challenges us to forget about ourselves in this powerfully strange counterblast to identity fetishismIdentity is something socially negotiated, both […]
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Blog: Saraswati by Gurnaik Johal review – an ambitious Indian panorama from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoIn the first novel from the author of We Move, descendants of a proscribed intercaste marriage are connected across continents and centuriesGurnaik Johal’s first b […]
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Blog: Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal author, dies aged 86 from
The Independent Books in the group The Independent book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoBritish novelist and former MI6 agent died after a brief illness
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Blog: Muckle Flugga by Michael Pedersen review – anything can happen on this remote Scottish island from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoLife is turned upside-down by a new arrival, in this weird and charming tale of nature and family – with a guest appearance from the ghost of Robert Louis S […]
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Blog: Artists, Siblings, Visionaries by Judith Mackrell review – the remarkable lives of Gwen and Augustus John from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoGwen’s talent vastly outshone her brother’s – but both are treated with subtlety in this outstanding dual biographyA young woman sits reading, a pot of tea to hand, […]
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Matthew Brown wrote a new blog post
A brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 month, 1 week agoA brain dump from Matrix Dreams: A better-defined series of sets
I’ve been pondering the weird collection of sets I cooked up in this post. In this post, I’d like to take a crack at defining the sets. I’m going to bo […] -
Blog: ‘Publishing is a dream, but this has also been one of the hardest years of my life’: Palestinian author Yasmin Zaher from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoThe novelist has been awarded the Dylan Thomas prize for young writers. She talks about giving up medical training to pursue fiction – and the childhood memories t […]
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Blog: Friday Poem – ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman from
Seren in the group Seren Books 1 month, 1 week agoThis week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Pond for All Eels’ by Taz Rahman from his collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’.
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Blog: Geoff Dyer: ‘I don’t go to books for comfort; I have a memory foam pillow for that’ from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoThe author on Marxist revelations, returning to Don DeLillo and reading all of Elizabeth TaylorMy earliest reading memory
Beatrix Potter when I was having my […] -
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From my social node: Bury me with some weird shit in the group The Fantastic (Group) of Lord Matt, Super Geek: 1 month, 1 week agoFrom my social node: Bury me with some weird shit
Bury me with some weird shit If/when I pass, I want everyone who attends the service to bring things to fill my coffin with. These must be unique or […] -
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How to add speech bubbles to images with GIMP, on the groupblog The Fantastic Site of Lord Matt 1 month, 1 week ago@Error_Conditioner Happy to help. Thank you for the kind words
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Blog: Brighton Rock by Graham Greene audiobook review – Sam West captures the menace of this modern classic from
Books | The Guardian in the group The Guardian book reviews 1 month, 1 week agoThe seaside town’s seedy underbelly is vividly evoked in this timeless tale of murder, romance and revengeWe are not short of audio versions of Brighton Rock, G […]
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Blog: Not the art of the endless rooms from
The Endless Rooms in the group The Endless Rooms 1 month, 2 weeks agoI’m not sure how to feel about this. I asked ChatGPT if it knew about this project. It did. I asked it to draw an image in the style of this project. It gave me […]
