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...Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine by Lawrence Freedman, Allen Lane £30/$34.95 This broad survey of war since 1945 covers a variety of conflicts from the Korean war to Russia...
...Love Marriageby Monica Ali, Virago £18.99/Scribner $27.99 It’s nearly 20 years since Ali burst on to the literary scene with her debut Brick Lane....
...These include Megha Majumdar’s A Burning (Scribner January), a story of three intertwined lives set against the volatile backdrop of contemporary India, and Peace Adzo Medie’s His Only Wife (Oneworld, March...
...’s Actress (Jonathan Cape RRP£16.99/Norton RRP$26.95, February) and Aravind Adiga’s Amnesty (Picador RRP£16.99/Scribner RRP$26, February)....
...Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving, by Julia Samuel, Penguin Life, RRP£14.99/Scribner, RRP$26 This book by a grief psychotherapist is a salve to the bereaved....
...Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Scribner, RRP$27 Berkeley neuroscientist Walker alternates between calm scientific reasoning and polemical passion...
...Gangsters also figure in Jennifer Egan’s Manhattan Beach (Corsair, RRP£8.99/Scribner, RRP$27), a beautiful account of the fate of an Irish family from Brooklyn during the Depression and second world war...
...The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner, Cape, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 A novel set in a woman’s prison by the author of The Flamethrowers....
...Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams, by Matthew Walker, Allen Lane, RRP£20/Scribner, RRP$27, 368 pages Clive Cookson is the FT’s science editor....
...House of Names, by Colm Tóibín, Viking, RRP£18.99/Scribner, RRP$26 The acclaimed Irish novelist retells the story of Clytemnestra....
...The Life Project, by Helen Pearson, Allen Lane, RRP£20 The history of a groundbreaking 70-year study into British health....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...Doctor Sleep , by Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£19.99/Scribner, RRP$30 King’s excellent sequel to The Shining revisits Danny Torrance, the ghost-haunted boy in his 1977 classic....
...When I contacted Fuld’s attorneys Allen & Overy regarding Budde’s statements, they replied: “This set of allegations surfaced several years ago, and at the time we issued the following statement....
...Bardach interviewed Castro for Vanity Fair in 1994, and is the author of ‘Cuba Confidential’ and the forthcoming ‘Without Fidel’ (Scribner)...
...Kaye (1978, Allen Lane) Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh (1956, Chatto & Windus) A Passage to India, E.M....
...In My War: Killing Time in Iraq, Private Colby Buzzell compiles a reading list that ranges from Bret Easton Ellis to Allen Ginsberg, Hunter S....
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