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...Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis by Michael Mann (PublicAffairs/Scribe) The US climate scientist Michael Mann dives into Earth’s geological record...
...Mark Vanhoenacker is a Boeing 787 pilot for British Airways and the author of ‘Imagine a City’ (Chatto & Windus/Knopf)....
...MAY Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru (Simon & Schuster/Knopf) Kunzru has a sharp eye for the mores and malaise of the contemporary US....
...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....
...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...
..., Allen Lane, RRP£20/Knopf RRP$26.95, 272 pages What If We Stopped Pretending?...
...Gabriel Garciá Márquez, Kazuo Ishiguro and Toni Morrison, numerous literary prize winners such as Robert Caro and Cormac McCarthy, but also popular bestsellers by Carl Hiaasen, Jo Nesbo, Jackie Collins and Michael...
...The TPLF is not a rag-tag band of guerrillas,” says Mr Knopf of the US Institute of Peace....
...Siege: Trump Under Fire, by Michael Wolff, Little Brown, RRP£20/Henry Holt, RRP$30 A gossipy account of the Trump presidency, full of startling details that the president himself would doubtless dismiss...
...Nilanjana Roy FT columnist Megha Majumdar’s A Burning (Knopf) has the crackling pace of a good thriller, but is fuelled by scalding anger....
...It’s Michael Crichton with laughs....
...Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer, Jonathan Cape, RRP£25/Alfred A Knopf, RRP$30 Packer is one of the most talented non-fiction writers in America....
...Michael Moritz, partner, Sequoia Capital The author himself is the first to admit that brevity is not his brief....
...Michael Moritz Partner, Sequoia Capital Oh to be 92 and, as the author would say, have the swank and dash to publish two books in the space of the year....
...Warlight , by Michael Ondaatje, Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.99, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe. Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos...
...The Monk of Mokha , by Dave Eggers, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$28.95 Even though it was actually a novel, Dave Eggers’ Heroes of the Frontier was one of the best US travel books of recent years...
...Nilanjana Roy, FT columnist In Michael Ondaatje’s Warlight (Knopf, RRP$26.95/Jonathan Cape, RRP£16.99) two children are left in the care of a mysterious character they call the Moth, after their parents...
...Ten years ago, the authors Matthew Bishop and Michael Green coined the term “philanthrocapitalism” in a book that described “how the rich can save the world”....
...All We Saw , by Anne Michaels, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$27 Michaels was an acclaimed poet long before she won the 1997 Orange Prize for her novel Fugitive Pieces....
...The film will be directed by Adam McKay (who also directed The Big Short, based on Michael Lewis’s book about the financial crisis)....
...Warlight, by Michael Ondaatje, Cape, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 The first novel in seven years by the author of The English Patient....
...Devil’s Day , by Andrew Michael Hurley, John Murray, RRP£12.99 Hurley’s first novel was The Loney, a prizewinning gothic triumph produced by a small Yorkshire press, later picked up by John Murray....
...Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine, by Joe Hagan, Canongate, RRP£25/Knopf, RRP$29.95, 560 pages Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars, by David Hepworth...
...The Red-Haired Woman , by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Ekin Oklap, Faber, RRP£16.99/Knopf, RRP$26.95 “The more I remember, the deeper I fall into it,” says Cem, the novel’s protagonist, reflecting on memory...
...Moonglow , by Michael Chabon, Fourth Estate, RRP£18.99 / Harper, RRP$28.99 Truths are blurred in Chabon’s ninth novel, which purports to be the memoir of his grandfather, narrated from his deathbed....
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