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...Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the 20th Centuryby Kate Molleson, Faber £18.99 Kate Molleson says she wrote this book “out of love and anger”....
...The Tale of Truthwater Lakeby Emma Carroll, Faber £12.99 After the extraordinary heatwave in Europe this summer, the events in Emma Carroll’s novel, set in 2032, seem all too relevant....
...The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poemby Matthew Hollis, Faber £20/W. W....
...Shrines of Gaietyby Kate Atkinson, Doubleday £20/Knopf $29 The 20s are roaring and London is in thrall to revellers and rogues....
...Sarah Hall’s phenomenal Burntcoat (Faber & Faber, 6 hr 7 min) starts from a similar place: a solitary woman attempting to process the surreality and stress of her immediate environment and take stock of...
...The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window by Rob Young, Faber & Faber £20, 512 pages Brian Dillon’s ‘Suppose a Sentence’ and ‘Essayism’ are published by Fitzcarraldo Editions....
...In the introduction to the Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, curator Kate Bailey’s avatar takes her virtual place in a bleached digital facsimile of the V&A’s main atrium....
...Tom Stoppard: A Life, by Hermione Lee, Faber, RRP£30, 992 pages Kate Maltby is chair of the Critics Circle (Drama Section) and deputy chair of Index on Censorship Join our online book group on Facebook...
...Light Perpetual, by Francis Spufford, Faber & Faber, RRP£16.99, 336 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Listen to our podcast, Culture Call, where FT editors and special guests...
...The result, as FT reviewer Kate Maltby wrote, “is an essential contribution to theatre history”....
...Kate Mosse fans will be eagerly awaiting The City of Tears (Mantle), the next book in The Burning Chambers series, which is published in January....
...He will depart on January 31 and be replaced by Kate Ringrose, a 16-year company veteran. Investcorp appointed Frances Fragos Townsend, emeritus vice-chairman at MacAndrews & Forbes, to its board....
...Tom Faber’s gaming column this week looks at how the games industry has responded to Black Lives Matter. 5....
...Kate Griffin created a genuinely innovative figure in historical fiction with Kitty Peck, propelling her on riotous excursions through the seamy world of 1880s music halls in London’s East End....
...Ace MI6 officer Kate Henderson bugs an oligarch’s yacht in Istanbul and discovers that the British prime minister has prostate cancer....
...The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape, by Richard King, Faber & Faber £14.99, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...Another success story is honoured in Toby Faber’s Dear Mr Faber (published by guess who, May)....
...Transcription, by Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, RRP£20 A novel of espionage and idealism from the author of Life After Life....
...Classical music and opera by Richard Fairman Opera: Passion, Power and Politics, edited by Kate Bailey, V&A Publishing, RRP£25 A strong coffee table is needed for this handsome volume....
...A Long Way from Home , by Peter Carey, Faber, RRP£17.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95, 368 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...I am currently sharpening a black Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer pencil. In what place are you happiest? On my veranda in Norfolk....
...The Doll Funeral, by Kate Hamer, Faber, RRP£12.99, 368 pages Rebecca Abrams will be speaking at the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival on Saturday April 1 about her forthcoming book ‘The Jewish Journey...
...jonathan.guthrie@ft.com on LSE kate.burgess@ft.com on Smiths and WPP...
...‘The Girl in the Red Coat’ is published by Faber Photograph: Roberto Ricciuti...
...A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson, Doubleday, RRP£20/Little, Brown, RRP$28 In her 2013 novel Life After Life, Atkinson followed one woman through multiple possible lives....
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