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See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.client.support@ft.com (Client Support)Sat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:46 +0000Sun, 8 Nov 2009 16:54:45 +0000Newspapers60http://news.ft.com/cms/d1f3ce1a-6bbe-11da-bb53-0000779e2340.gifhttp://www.ft.com/arts/books/fiction(PICS-1.1 "http://www.classify.org/safesurf/" L gen true for "http://www.ft.com/" r (SS~~000 1))http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/ad73bc92-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/ad73bc92-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.htmlPhilip 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 actSat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:46 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/bb233a0c-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/bb233a0c-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.htmlA work of immediacy, humanity and tenderness, David Malouf's seventh novel that retells the 'Iliad' is as rewarding as its originalSat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:46 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/c02ba6e2-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c02ba6e2-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.htmlLaleh 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 countrySat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:46 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/9e1394b6-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9e1394b6-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.htmlMaryam Sachs' eloquent prose gives a vivid impression of the protagonist's character and memories, which makes the adulterous desire sensual rather than smuttySat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:45 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/a08a2958-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a08a2958-ca62-11de-a3a3-00144feabdc0.htmlThe 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 invadersSat, 7 Nov 2009 04:13:45 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/e8bd4bd0-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e8bd4bd0-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlThis relentless pop-cultural history lesson from Barbara Kingsolver explores lives and events – from the Mexican Revolution to the cold war – through the journals of a literary Forrest GumpMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1ed4a58-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e1ed4a58-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlThree decades in the making, Stephen King's latest is a well-paced, gutsy tale of lives in a pressure cooker and the evil done by bad men convinced they have the best of intentionsMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/59ae72b0-c4e4-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/59ae72b0-c4e4-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlRobert Harris's novel centres on the rhetorician politician Marcus Tullius Cicero in the dwindling years of the Roman republicMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:23 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/e44bfa9c-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e44bfa9c-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlNapoleon Bonaparte's tale of a young French general who forsakes conflict and worldly success to find happiness in loveMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/e693283e-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e693283e-c4e3-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlTove Jansson's unsentimental – and often mischievous – novel of ideas asks whether it is better to be kind than to be truthful, especially for an artistMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/5529c776-c4e4-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5529c776-c4e4-11de-8d54-00144feab49a.htmlA heat-maddened story by Milton Hatoum focuses on an orphan growing up in a Brazilian river town who records his difficult friendship with an awkward misfit at schoolMon, 2 Nov 2009 06:24:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/dbe3344e-bf64-11de-a696-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/dbe3344e-bf64-11de-a696-00144feab49a.htmlAn aspiring writer tells the touching and mesmerising story of his encounter with a charismatic French lecturer, his enigmatic girlfriend and a mystery that spans four decadesMon, 26 Oct 2009 05:22:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/d99b50cc-bf64-11de-a696-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d99b50cc-bf64-11de-a696-00144feab49a.htmlThe latest in a mega-selling trilogy about dark doings in Sweden narrates the culmination of a fight against sinister forces by an über-hacker and a crusading journalistSat, 31 Oct 2009 16:29:37 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/18bdc8fc-bf65-11de-a696-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/18bdc8fc-bf65-11de-a696-00144feab49a.htmlMortality is at the heart of three debuts: a series of short fictions on filial love, a melodrama set in Depression-era Alabama and the tale of a schoolgirl seeking the truth about her sister's deathMon, 26 Oct 2009 05:22:22 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/10e176ba-bf65-11de-a696-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/10e176ba-bf65-11de-a696-00144feab49a.htmlA taut novella about a woman's bid for independence and the menace that comes with the knowledge of what her youngest brother did to become the family pariahMon, 26 Oct 2009 05:22:22 +0000