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FT CRITICS’ PICK
Books of the year
In a publishing year dominated by news and history, FT critics pick the written world’s finest
2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
The winner
Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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Triumph of the ordinary
Four books testify that debate continues to rage around Andy Warhol’s contribution – his early versus his late works – and his role as Pop artist versus philosopher versus celebrity, writes Jackie Wullschlager
Andy Warhol
Pop
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
Andy Warhol Giant Size
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Non-fiction
How Markets Fail
John Cassidy provides a thoroughly readable history of how the modern economics profession has developed over the past century – and lost its way, writes Gillian Tett
Contact!
Judging by this high-spirited collection of vignettes from a hectically peripatetic life, Jan Morris, the Anglo-Welsh travel writer, is still going strong well into her 80s
The Hammer and the Cross
Robert Ferguson shows a novelist’s eye for structure, telling ’Viking history’ from the burial of the Oseberg ship in the early 9th century and the heathen cults behind it
Czechoslovakia
Mary Heimann’s polemical account attacks a national myth and stimulates interest in a country often ignored in the great sweep of 20th-century European history
The Economics and Politics of Climate Change
Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn, this valuable compendium brings together over 30 experts who set out a kind of primer for Copenhagen on the economic, political and social implications
Russia and the Arabs
Former Pravda reporter Yevgeny Primakov recounts key political events in the Middle East from the Kremlin’s perspective
Everything is Connected
Daniel Barenboim convincingly suggests that the self-critical discipline of musicians, applied to politics, is perhaps the only recourse to securing peace in the Middle East
Fiction
William Trevor
A two-volume collection gathers together the writer’s complete short fiction and draws attention to his ability to capture and understand the English at home and overseas
To Music
Ketil Bjørnstad diligently maps out a plot that is charged with Gothic intensity in this novel – set in orderly Oslo in the 1960s – that evokes the pathology of adolescent rivalry
Black Water Rising
This debut by Attica Locke about an African American who finds himself implicated in a murder is a virtually seamless marriage of social comment and slick crime action
Lucinella
A minor poet with a self-digesting social circle of critics progresses from party to party and casts an insightful eye over her friends’ and her own deceits and dissatisfactions
Super Girl
Protagonists in Ruth Thomas’s book of short stories range from a Scottish metallurgist at a conference in Berlin to a poet who has found celebrity in old age – all being forced out of their comfort zones
The Original Of Laura
Vladimir Nabokov’s last and previously unpublished novel – an ingenious story about confronting death – is further proof of the Russian writer’s literary talent
The Passport
Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller’s first novel is a poetic chronicle of one family’s desperate attempt to flee Ceausescu’s Romania
Dear Book Doctor
Pregnant pause
I’m about to go on maternity leave. Will anyone remember me or take me seriously when I return?
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The Children’s Book
The gorgeous shade of blue in AS Byatt’s latest novel mimics the look of a leather-bound book with gold stamping of a jewelled dragonfly
Small Talk
José Saramago
Who is my perfect reader? The reader who, when moved by what he or she has read, looks up from the page for a moment before continuing to read
