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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)Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:27:59 +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/cbec6faa-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cbec6faa-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.htmlIn 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 characterMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2c3c332-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d2c3c332-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.htmlA 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 TherouxMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/d53381de-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/d53381de-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.htmlWriting 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 ArabiaMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/c48e1a92-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c48e1a92-cfe1-11de-a36d-00144feabdc0.htmlFrom Sándor Márai comes a novella about an impoverished old maid who receives a visitor from her tumultuous pastMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/2/23d9f95a-d260-11de-a0f0-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Farts%2Fbooks%2Ffictionhttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/23d9f95a-d260-11de-a0f0-00144feabdc0.htmlRichard Zimler and Raša Sekulović aggregate a collection of stories touching on various topics from immigration to bullyingMon, 16 Nov 2009 07:22:38 +0000http://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/2/59ae72b0-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/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/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/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 +0000