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...Amy and Lan by Sadie Jones, Chatto & Windus, £16.99/Harper $25.99, 320 pages...
...Our relationship with tech also features strongly in Amy Liptrot’s compelling memoir The Instant (Canongate, March), a story of love, lust, break-up, life in the city and our digital existences and legacies...
...Snakes & Ladders: The Great British Social Mobility Myth, by Selina Todd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£25, 448 pages David Willetts is president of the Resolution Foundation and author of A University Education...
...Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth Century Japan, by Amy Stanley, Chatto & Windus, RRP£16.99, 352 pages Leo Lewis is the FT’s Tokyo correspondent Join our online book group on...
...One of the most imaginative YA writers, Andy Mulligan, this month made the leap with Train Man, his first novel for adults (Chatto), under the more grown-up “Andrew”....
...White Houses , by Amy Bloom, Granta, RRP£12.99/Random House, RRP$27 One of the tenderest, most compassionate novels I have read, this is the real story of first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s 30-year affair with...
...White Houses , by Amy Bloom, Granta, RRP£12.99/$27 With the help of an archive of 3,500 letters, Amy Bloom tenderly and brilliantly reimagines the affair between Eleanor Roosevelt and sports journalist...
...— all rapturously received, before reeling through Amy Winehouse and Jay Z. Later, Evans notes wryly that if the free-spirited Melissa had a song, it would be Dido’s irredeemably limp “Hunter”....
...The Button Box: Lifting the Lid on Women’s Lives, by Lynn Knight, Chatto, RRP£15.99, 320 pages Shahidha Bari is lecturer in Romanticism at Queen Mary University of London...
...The Outrun, by Amy Liptrot, Canongate, RRP£14.99 Liptrot grew up on the Orkney Islands then moved to London to pursue a career as a journalist, only for her life to be torn apart by alcoholism....
...Chatto & Windus (UK), Faber & Faber (US), July 2014 Atif Mian and Amir Sufi add substantially to the genre of post-crisis literature by laying out a prescription about how to avoid the next recession in...
...The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Richard Flanagan, Chatto & Windus RRP£16.99/ Knopf RRP$26.95, 464 pages...
.... ——————————————- Award-winning authors, FT editors and columnist on the titles to remember this year Lionel Barber Editor of the Financial Times Creativity, Inc , by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace (Bantam...
...… Down to the Sea in Ships, by Horatio Clare, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20 Travelling between continents by cargo ship remains a great travel fantasy for many....
...The Drunken Botanist : The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks, by Amy Stewart, Timber Press, £14.99, 368 pages Well informed and completely mad, this guide to the botany of booze includes cocktail...
...The struggle of an architect to model the shape of a grieving nation in a 9/11 memorial provides the architecture of Amy Waldman’s The Submission ....
...The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua, Bloomsbury, RRP£16.99, 256 pages One of the publishing sensations of the year, Chua’s book about her ferocious Chinese parenting style taps into two western...
...The Still Point, by Amy Sackville, Portobello RRP£12.99 Julia is writing the story of an ancestral Arctic explorer but her research reveals as much about herself as it does about him....
...Wicked Plants: The A-Z of Plants That Kill, Maim, Intoxicate and Otherwise Offend, by Amy Stewart, Timber Press RRP£9.99 A dip into the dank underworld of plants at their most noxious, from the hemlock...
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