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...Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy (Faber/Scribner) Kilroy’s first novel in over 10 years is a searing account of the everyday and epic challenges of new motherhood, which toys with a variety of genres to...
...Briefly, A Delicious Lifeby Nell Stevens, Picador £14.99/Scribner $26.99 Mallorca, 1838....
...In Francis Bacon (William Collins, January), Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan claim the first “fully comprehensive” — it’s certainly a hefty tome — biography of the celebrated artist....
...Myers MBS by Ben Hubbard, William Collins £20 Mohammed bin Salman could well be in power for the next 50 years, both shaping and responding to major economic, social and political change....
...Food writer William Sitwell’s The Restaurant is a history of eating out spanning two millennia (Simon & Schuster RRP£20, April)....
...At 29, Nathaniel Williams combs through the memories of his 14-year-old self, following a breadcrumb trail of mysteries, evasions and secrets....
...Sing, Unburied, Sing , by Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury, RRP£12.99/Scribner, RRP$26, 304 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FTBooksCafe....
...The Mars Room, by Rachel Kushner, Cape, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 A novel set in a woman’s prison by the author of The Flamethrowers....
...House of Names, by Colm Tóibín, Viking, RRP£18.99/Scribner, RRP$26 The acclaimed Irish novelist retells the story of Clytemnestra....
...As a result, Fitzgerald is securely lodged in the pantheon alongside Hemingway and William Faulkner, the rivals he watched with unease in the 1930s....
...Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World, by Andrew Solomon, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99/Scribner, RRP$30, 592 pages...
...Shakespeare in Swahililand, by Edward Wilson-Lee, William Collins, RRP£20 / FSG, RRP$27 (Sept) A Cambridge lecturer raised in Kenya on how Shakespeare has been read in Africa and beyond....
...Zero K, by Don DeLillo, Picador, RRP£16.99/Scribner, RRP$27 At 79, the American master surprises yet again with a dystopian take on our desire to preserve life beyond its sell-by date....
...It was editorial assistance worthy of Maxwell Perkins — the Scribner editor who chiselled The Great Gatsby out of the raw material Scott Fitzgerald gave him....
...the Corruption of Our Great Universities’ (Scribner, $35)....
...gary.silverman@ft.com ——————————————- Letter in response to this article: The wrong place to look for love / From Mr William Chmelar...
...Doctor Sleep , by Stephen King, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£19.99/Scribner, RRP$30 King’s excellent sequel to The Shining revisits Danny Torrance, the ghost-haunted boy in his 1977 classic....
...Publishers and literary agents expressed low expectations for the book, bought by Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster....
...Leading from Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead, by Sam Intrator and Megan Scribner, with a foreword by Madeleine Albright....
...History, Culture and Identity, Amartya Sen (2005, Allen Lane) The Idea of India, Sunil Khilnani (1997, Hamish Hamilton) Mother India, Katherine Mayo (1927, Jonathan Cape) Planet India, Mira Kamdar (2007, Scribner...
...Then two Americans, the agronomist William Paddock and his diplomat brother Paul, published a book that claimed that ”today, India is the first of the hungry nations to stand at the brink of famine and disaster...
...Williams was good at her job and was promoted to sergeant....
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