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...Air, written by Alex Convery and directed by Ben Affleck, brings verve and bombast to the story of Nike’s 1984 deal with Michael Jordan while Tetris, with Noah Pink writing and Jon S Baird directing, is...
...As spring swells, so too do publishers’ fiction lists, and among them this year is Andrew O’Hagan’s bravura piece of storytelling, Caledonian Road (Faber & Faber, 22 hrs, 51 mins), read by actor Michael...
...Fanatic Heart by Thomas Keneally Faber £20, 464 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...‘Among Others: Friendships and Encounters’ is published by Faber...
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...Unfinished Business by Michael Bracewell (White Rabbit) Martin is a middle-aged, middle-class Londoner who hates his job and spends his evenings drunkenly raking over the embers of his misspent life....
...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....
...Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann (Granta/New Directions) Available in English for the first time, Kairos is the story of a passionate yet toxic affair set in Berlin during the tail-end...
...Happily, the campaign didn’t prevent the careers or legacies of Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett and Peter Maxwell Davies....
...Bloodbath Nation by Paul Auster, photographs by Spencer Ostrander, Grove Atlantic $24/Faber £25, 160 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Mark Carney, the former Bank of England governor....
...Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy, Faber & Faber £20, 464 pages Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution...
...Spies in Canaanby David Park, Bloomsbury £16.99 When Michael Miller, a retired US spy who served in Vietnam during the fall of Saigon, receives a strange package through the post, he is forced to reconsider...
...The Sidekick by Benjamin Markovits, Faber £18.99, 368 pages Ken Kalfus’s books include ‘A Disorder Peculiar to the Country’....
...Both came from Devolver Digital, writes Tom Faber, an indie game publisher whose titles inevitably make their way on to best-of lists each year....
...“The Sidekick” by Benjamin Markovits is published by Faber Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...The metaverse’s current miasmaTom Faber has been looking at the prospects for an even bigger Zuckerberg project. So far, his vision of the metaverse has been uninspiring, he says....
...There is D-Pad Hero, a NES-style remake of Guitar Hero which includes bleepy versions of Michael Jackson and Elvis Presley, and Gang Garrison 2, which squeezes shooter Team Fortress 2 into two dimensions...
...The novelist and critic Michael Bracewell recalls his life in London as a young man between 1979 and 1986, but it’s presented as memoir of a seemingly impersonal kind....
...Mozart: The Reign of Loveby Jan Swafford, Faber £30 It is arguably time for a composer biography that goes back to basics....
...Hanneke Faber, president of Unilever’s foods division, echoes Zucchero....
...The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall, edited by Tessa Norton and Bob Stanley, Faber & Faber, RRP£25, 360 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Every Vow You Breakby Peter Swanson, Faber £12.99/William Morrow $27.99 If you’re looking for the suspense techniques of Alfred Hitchcock translated to the page, Swanson’s your man....
...Now former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who has vowed to use a chunk of his wealth to accelerate the move away from coal power, used COP26 to announce a ramp-up of that drive....
...Postwar Japan, an English country house, a boarding school dedicated to cloning — Ishiguro’s previous books have seen them all — and Klara and the Sun (Faber & Faber) is another journey into new territory...
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