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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Children’s

    James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Fiction

    Laura Battle and Andrew Dickson select their best mid-year reads

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Fiction in translation

    Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Audio books

    Alex Clark selects her best mid-year listens

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Science fiction

    James Lovegrove selects his best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Thrillers

    Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    Trouble at the border; dark humour in gothic tale Brat; the radical history of suburban gardening; what the Capetians and Plantagenets did for us; a new novel from Joseph O’Neill; the heroine of the Underground Railroad; social unrest in Chile; a pilgrim in search of Dostoyevsky’s soul — plus the best new environment titles

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Summer in Baden-Baden — a pilgrim in search of Dostoyevsky’s soul

    Leonid Tsypkin’s newly reissued novel fuses Soviet-inflected nostalgia with a biography of the great Russian writer

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Brat by Gabriel Smith — a gothic tale packed with dark humour

    A weird and raucous novel about living and dying

    A photo of a person in a room wearing a deer head
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Godwin by Joseph O’Neill — mining football talent

    A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel

    Illustration of a person in a person with pages flying in the air
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán — seeking meaning in the menial

    Social ills and unrest in modern-day Chile play out in a tense and tragic story of a put-upon domestic worker

    A photo of a woman cleaning a hallway with a large mop
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Interview
    The Crazy Rich Asians author knows super-rich fashion

    Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Review
    Ghostroots — magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos

    ’Pemi Aguda’s short stories evoke the chaos, smells, corruption and supernatural influences in Nigeria’s biggest city

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  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Private Rites by Julia Armfield — a dystopian world where it always rains

    An intriguing and provocative apocalyptic tale loosely inspired by ‘King Lear’ 

    A close-up image of heavy rain drops pounding a wet pavement
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    Review
    Parade by Rachel Cusk — artistic reflections that will irk and intrigue

    Four stories about authorship and identity within the visual arts are interspersed with observations from a shape-shifting narrator

    An illustration of an artist’s atelier, with many canvases, including ones showing an upside down woman, a man staring at the letter G and an eye
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    ReviewScience fiction books
    From the Pleistocene to steampunk — the pick of new science fiction

    Haunted landscapes figure prominently in recent releases, while a key voice on American dystopia receives welcome reissues

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    Why we still care about Kafka

    100 years after the writer’s death, what do his uncensored diaries, and a raft of new studies, reveal about what made him and his relevance in our digital age?

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  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Review
    Blue Sisters — Coco Mellors’ saga of sibling misfortunes

    The ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ author’s second novel shows women facing the aftermath of addiction and bereavement

    A trio of instant camera-type photos of a young woman
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Review
    Butcher by Joyce Carol Oates — a blood-soaked, gothic nightmare

    The 85-year-old writer’s subversive novel wades into the horror show of a 19th-century asylum ruled over by a brutal gynaecologist

    An image, in half darkness, of a surgeon at the operating table
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Review
    The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma — the brutal reality of war

    A powerful story of brotherhood, friendship and extraordinary courage during the Biafran conflict

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  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Review
    The In-Between — Christos Tsiolkas’s tender story of mid-life gay love

    By bucking the fixation with youth and fitness, the Greek-Australian writer has delivered his most heartfelt novel yet

    A photograph of two figures out walking on a hilltop, silhouetted against the sky
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Review
    This Strange Eventful History — Claire Messud’s magnificent, multi-layered saga

    Based on the author’s own family history, this continent-hopping novel chronicles the relentless march of time and the people swept up by it

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Interview
    International Booker winners ‘euphoric’ after defying the odds

    Author Jenny Erpenbeck and translator Michael Hofmann on beating the bookies for ‘Kairos’, the first German novel to win the prize

    Jenny Erpenbeck and Michael Hofmann
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Review
    Tiananmen Square — reliving the 1989 massacre

    Lai Wen’s novel is deeply humane account of an act of state violence that Chinese authorities have tried to erase from history

    On a wide, five-land highway, a row of police officers in green caps can be seen over the heads of a group of young people
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Jenny Erpenbeck’s ‘luminous’ Kairos wins International Booker Prize

    A story of passion, art and politics in the GDR is the first German novel to win the prize

    A woman and a man stand looking at each other, smiling. Both hold a book and a trophy
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