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...The Deluge by Stephen Markley (Simon & Schuster) The world is not awash in captivating climate fiction but this sprawling novel proves it can be done....
...Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Start-up Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill (Simon & Schuster) A New York Times reporter investigates the secretive start-up Clearview AI, which sells its facial...
...During the decade, Dick Goodwin became close to two presidents — John F Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson — and played an important role in the 1968 White House campaigns of both insurgent senator “clean” Eugene...
...Watford Forever: How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, A Town and Each Other by John Preston and Elton John (Viking) John bought his beloved Watford FC when it was near the bottom of English...
...“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” by Doris Kearns Goodwin is published by Simon & Schuster....
...In the pantheon of modern British political scandals John Stonehouse is largely forgotten....
...Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant (Sceptre/Knopf) This story of the powerful 2016 wildfire that swept through the Canadian city of Fort McMurray is based on a grim but compelling...
...John Silk, minister of natural resources and commerce for the Marshall Islands, said the country “did not come here to sign our death warrant”, calling for a fossil fuel phaseout....
...Starting with his vice-president, we can add his chief of staff, John Kelly, both his defence secretaries, Jim Mattis and Mark Esper, his national security adviser, John Bolton, his first secretary of state...
...US climate envoy John Kerry said after emerging from a meeting with the COP28 president Sultan al-Jaber on Tuesday night that “a lot of good work was being done” to improve the draft text....
...Eyman is a veteran film critic whose previous biographical subjects include Mary Pickford, John Ford and Cecil B DeMille....
...Burn Book: A Tech Love Story by Kara Swisher (Simon & Schuster)The tech industry said it wanted to change the world....
...Beijing Rules: China’s Quest for Global Influence by Bethany Allen (John Murray/Harper) An eye-opening chronicle of the multiple ways in which China’s Communist party seeks to exert its power abroad....
...The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann Simon & Schuster £20, 352 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack (John Murray Press) It’s not quite blood from a stone — Nick Drake was no senseless thing — but Morton Jack’s feat in coaxing a full-scale biography from his...
...That peaked when Hong Kong’s chief executive John Lee and Yasir al-Rumayyan, governor of Saudi Arabia’s $700bn Public Investment Fund, struck a celebratory gong....
...In his book, The History of the Crossword, John Halpern (who sets for the FT as Mudd) suggests Arthur Wynne, the son of the editor of the Liverpool Mercury, was the father of the crossword....
...Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technologyby Chris Miller, Simon & Schuster £20 Semiconductors are to our computer age what railroads were to the industrial age....
...After writing two books dealing with threats to liberal democracy from the new right, it’s to these “progressive” forces and their intellectual champions that Yascha Mounk, a politics professor at Johns...
...BlackRock has named former Starbucks executive John Kelly to the new role of global head of corporate affairs, according to a memo seen by DD. He was in a senior communications role at Roku....
...The Last Chairlift by John Irving, Scribner £25/Simon & Schuster $38, 912 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...With Cold People (Simon & Schuster, £16.99), we find another mainstream author, in this case Tom Rob Smith, dipping a toe in science-fictional waters....
...US Department of Justice; the TF1-M6 merger in France; and the tie-up between RTL’s operation in the Netherlands and Talpa Network, the Dutch media group founded by Big Brother creator John de Mol....
...The Real Special Relationship: The True Story of How the British and US Secret Services Work Together by Michael Smith, Simon & Schuster £25, 576 pages John Paul Rathbone is the FT’s security & defence...
...Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber by Andy Borowitz, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster £20/$28.99, 320 pages Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Join our online...
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