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...The day after, Geoff Hurst, scorer of a hat-trick, “washed his car in soapy water and cut the lawn”....
...Gujarat Under Modi: Laboratory of Today’s India by Christophe Jaffrelot Hurst £30, 416 pages The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah William Collins £30, 672 pages...
...We were struck by a thoughtful Twitter thread from William Hurst, a political-science professor at Cambridge who studies China....
...The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate)Eleven years after The Garden of Evening Mists, Tan Twan Eng is back with a fictionalised account of William Somerset Maugham’s visit to Penang in 1921....
...She also points to the Chinese pagoda at Kew by William Chambers, and Henry Holland’s Chinese dairy at Woburn, both of which acted as inspiration for Brighton’s Royal Pavilion a few decades later....
...When Boris says stay home, now we’ll all go out,” said William Henry, a retired bus driver. But there is a mountain for opposition groups to climb....
...White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa by Susan Williams, Hurst £25/PublicAffairs $35, 688 pages David Pilling is the FT’s Africa editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books...
...— New Travel Writingedited by William Atkins, Granta £14.99 Granta’s latest anthology of new travel writing is similarly angst-ridden....
...The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to Amalgamation by Fola Fagbule and Feyi Fawehinmi Cassava Republic, £19.99, 357 pages What Britain Did to Nigeria: A Short History of Conquest and Rule by Max Siollun Hurst...
...Jillian Williams, a principal at the venture firm Anthemis who led its investment in Pipe, said companies using Pipe were aligned with investors on the other side of the transactions....
...Fowler, Bantam Press £12.99, 240 pages Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World’s Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines, OUP $29.95/Hurst £20, 352 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Paris bureau chief...
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart....
...Dangerous Hero: Corbyn’s Ruthless Plot for Power, by Tom Bower, William Collins, RRP£20 As the title suggests, this is an unabashedly hostile account of the leader of Britain’s Labour party....
...The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal , by William J Burns, Random House/Hurst $32/£25, 512 pages Lionel Barber is the editor of the FT Join our online book group...
...Inglorious Empire: What the British Did To India , by Shashi Tharoor, Hurst, RRP£20/$27.95 Tharoor’s polemical account of the British role in India originated as a speech at the Oxford Union and has become...
...The political scientist William Hurst has referred to them as “hollow cities”, designed without reference to genuine human need....
...Love is Blind, by William Boyd, Viking A young Scotsman discovers a new life in Paris in the popular Boyd’s latest....
...The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics, by David Goodhart, Hurst, RRP£20/$24.95 A thought-provoking analysis of the social division between footloose, educated “Anywheres”...
...Rotten Row, by Petina Gappah, Faber, RRP£12.99, 352 pages Illustration by Oliver Hurst...
...Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India, by Shashi Tharoor, Hurst, RRP£20, 296 pages Victor Mallet is the FT’s Asia news editor....
...Two years ago, he brought to the world a rare and fine William Kent hall bench, in perfectly untouched condition, en suite to the Hall furniture at Holkham, the great Palladian house on the north Norfolk...
...This Present Darkness: A History of Nigerian Organised Crime, by Stephen Ellis, Hurst, RRP£20, 312 pages William Wallis is an FT leader writer and a former Africa editor...
...As the science writer William Broad explored in his book, The Science of Yoga: The Risks and Rewards, men are much less flexible than women....
...“This way they lose the legal precedent but the UK court system is still delivering what is by far the biggest payout so far,” said Joseph Hurst-Croft, executive director of the Stakeholder Democracy Network...
...Blood Year: The Unraveling of Western Counterterrorism, by David Kilcullen, Hurst, RRP£9.99 David Kilcullen, an Australian military officer and academic, was deeply involved in the US counterinsurgency...
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