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    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      Style
      When it comes to Prince Harry’s beard, I’m team hairy

      Whether its origin is Freudian or Jungian, the Duke of Sussex’s facial hair remains a manifestation of his personal freedom

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Style
      The mysterious disappearance of Kiwi shoe polish

      For a true insight into the state of the nation, look no further than the decline in shining our shoe leather

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads

    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      ReviewThriller books
      Spies in Canaan by David Park — a life in the shadows

      In the Belfast writer’s new thriller, a retired spy is forced to re-examine his past and finds the line between good and evil hard to discern

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The Perfect Golden Circle — men behaving mysteriously

      Set during the hot summer of 1989, Benjamin Myers’ atmospheric novel follows two troubled souls on a mission to create ever more elaborate crop circles

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      ReviewScience books
      The Future of Dinosaurs — detective work and untold discoveries to come

      Prehistoric finds aside, palaeontologist David Hone shows how science is accelerating the pace of intriguing new revelations

    • Wednesday, 17 November, 2021
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
      Best books of 2021: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles

    • Thursday, 26 August, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing — splendid contemplation

      In the latest of his esoteric, discursive histories, Mark Kurlansky turns his eye to a favourite pursuit of the great and the good

    • Friday, 25 June, 2021
      FT SeriesSummer books 2021
      Summer books of 2021: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads

    • Friday, 20 November, 2020
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
      Best books of 2020: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles

    • Friday, 26 June, 2020
      FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
      Summer books of 2020: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads

    • Friday, 31 January, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Strange Hotel by Eimear McBride — finely controlled and complex

      The prizewinning novelist’s third book immerses us in the mind of a nameless heroine

    • Friday, 3 January, 2020
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar — exquisitely told

      A philosophical exploration of death, love and art

    • Friday, 6 December, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      The Captain and the Glory by Dave Eggers — satire in the age of Trump

      Is the Trump presidency too ridiculous and darkly funny to bear the writer’s fictional satire?

    • Friday, 22 November, 2019
      Best Books of the Year 2019
      Best books of 2019: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles

    • Friday, 15 November, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Ness — an illustrated tour of an unusual English beauty spot

      Artist Stanley Donwood joins nature writer Robert Macfarlane to evoke a haunting coastline

    • Friday, 23 August, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      To Calais, In Ordinary Time by James Meek — a fine historical novel

      A ploughman, a proto feminist and a proctor are vivid 14th-century fellow travellers

    • Friday, 2 August, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Live a Little by Howard Jacobson — endearing twilight tale

      Love and humour are found at the end of the road for a pair of elderly protagonists

    • Friday, 21 June, 2019
      FT SeriesSummer Books 2019
      Summer books of 2019: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his mid-year reads

    • Friday, 7 June, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Kossuth Square by Adam LeBor — Detective Balthazar Kovacs returns

      A thriller that cleverly absorbs Hungary’s history, politics and current events

    • Friday, 29 March, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Hark: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte — a satire that runs rich and deep

      A satirical swipe at groups of believers makes for a very funny novel that mostly hits its targets

    • Friday, 8 March, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      JSS Bach by Martin Goodman — orchestral manoeuvres

      The Nazis’ relationship with music is explored through the life of a Jewish cellist

    • Friday, 25 January, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma — songs of innocence and experience

      An intricately wrought story about a young man caught in the jaws of fate offers a microcosm of the larger implosion of Nigerian society

    • Friday, 18 January, 2019
      ReviewFiction
      Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds — where fame is a cage and refuge

      A story of a narcissistic actor and an obsessive fan and the torment they cause

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