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2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
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Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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Your Face Tomorrow 3
In the final volume of Javier Marías’s spy trilogy, Spaniard Jacques Deza begins to question the morality of his profession while working for a shadowy London agency as an interpreter of character
A Dead Hand
A writer travelling in Calcutta gets dragged into a murder case after receiving a letter from a beautiful woman asking his help in this latest novel from Paul Theroux
The Others
Writing under the nom de plume Siba al-Harez, an unnamed narrator gives a raw account of her relationship with a peer in a girls’ school in Saudi Arabia
Esther’s Inheritance
From Sándor Márai comes a novella about an impoverished old maid who receives a visitor from her tumultuous past
The Children’s Hours
Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulović aggregate a collection of stories touching on various topics from immigration to bullying
The Humbling
Philip Roth revisits familiar themes of ageing and impotency in his latest tale about a tragically doomed actor who, in his mid-60s, discovers he can no longer act
Ransom
A work of immediacy, humanity and tenderness, David Malouf’s seventh novel that retells the ‘Iliad’ is as rewarding as its original
The Age of Orphans
Laleh Khadivi’s debut novel tells the melancholy tale of a Kurdish boy’s loss of home and identity, set against the birth of a new country
Without Saying Goodbye
Maryam Sachs’ eloquent prose gives a vivid impression of the protagonist’s character and memories, which makes the adulterous desire sensual rather than smutty
Astérix & Obélix’s Birthday
The packed pages of this 50th anniversary volume will delight devotees as the cast of Gauls dreamt up by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo still holds out against Roman invaders
