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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
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      The best books of the week

      Salman Rushdie’s ‘gift of alchemy’ in new novel ‘Victory City’; big business vs big government in America; museums and the ownership of history; Aleksandar Hemon’s ambitious new epic; Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s state-of-Nigeria novel; how to help England’s north; the life of Dick Whittington; terror in rural France — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of new thrillers

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
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      Don’t knock romance novels — they’re big business

      The much-derided genre is not only a sure earner for the publishing industry — it also moves with the times

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon — a majestic, ambitious masterpiece

      The Bosnian-American author returns to themes of displacement in an epic novel that spans decades

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      A Spell of Good Things — Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s heart-rending second novel

      In a follow-up to her acclaimed ‘Stay With Me’, the Nigerian writer has crafted a powerful state-of-the-nation saga

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Birthday Party — silent dread turns to violence in rural France

      Laurent Mauvignier’s erudite, narratively skilful thriller builds tension as danger looms for a hamlet’s residents

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is a testimony to the power of words

      The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      This Other Eden — a tragedy of American racism and eugenics

      Paul Harding, author of the Pulitzer-winning ‘Tinkers’, brings a creeping menace to this saga of islanders whose rural idyll is shattered by exploitation

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Stolen — Ann-Helén Laestadius’s moving portrait of the plight of the Sámi

      The killing of a precious deer calf in the Swedish Arctic brings home the struggles of the region’s indigenous people

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The New Life by Tom Crewe — mind-body complex

      An intense and precise novel that explores the changing sexual mores of Victorian society through the eyes of two ethical pioneers

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Review
      German Fantasia — a haunting chronicle of guilt, truth and Nazi brutality

      French writer/film-maker Philippe Claudel weaves together disparate strands to create a decade-spanning panorama

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Review
      Mirror of Our Sorrows by Pierre Lemaitre — the spoils of war

      The final volume in the Children of Disaster trilogy weaves public and private lives into a vibrant account of France in 1940

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Review
      Age of Vice — love and lawlessness in New Delhi

      Deepti Kapoor’s crime saga evokes a modern city of carnage, confusion — and brilliant dreams

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      A Mountain to the North by László Krasznahorkai — gardeners’ world

      The novella, rendered in Ottilie Mulzet’s fine translation, is imbued with a precision that can be glorious, but also at times intensely analytical

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      ReviewThriller books
      My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor — rebel with a cause

      A motorcycle-riding Irish priest is the driving force in this polyphonic literary thriller set during the Nazi occupation of Rome

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Review
      The End of Nightwork — Aidan Cottrell-Boyce’s ambitious debut

      An artful novel teeming with ideas about politics, time and trauma

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Review
      Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — sins of the mother

      A South Korean classic about tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that blends folklore and magical realism

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Books
      The books to read in 2023

      From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Review
      Old heroes return — the best new science fiction novels

      Robert E Howard’s Conan comes back in rousing fashion, courtesy of SM Stirling, while Aliette de Bodard summons the spirit of HG Wells

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
      FT Magazine
      ‘A Restaurant Somewhere Else’: a story about chefs by Jem Calder

      ‘The part she liked most about working was also the part she was best at: deep monotasking to the point of pure immersion’

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      The Shards — essence of Bret Easton Ellis

      A serial killer, pretty LA teens and lashings of prescription drugs feature in Ellis’s atmospheric first novel in 13 years

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Review
      Vista Chinesa by Tatiana Salem Levy — living to tell the tale

      An architect confronts her own trauma in this story set in pre-Olympics Brazil

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Unfinished Business — Michael Bracewell on mid-life and the metropolis

      An aesthete wrestles with his advancing years in this affecting novel

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      Review
      Beginners’ breakouts — our pick of the best new debut fiction

      Tales of ingénues in gilded circles echo ‘The Secret History’ — while a dark saga set in Trinidad is a budding masterpiece

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Review
      Avalon — Nell Zink’s sly, subversive boy-meets-girl story

      The American author’s sixth novel lampoons male use of academic credentials to feed on female attention

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Review
      Kick the Latch — minimalist masterclass from Kathryn Scanlan

      Based on a real individual, this is a quietly compelling portrait of a woman who has devoted her working life to racehorses

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