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Laura Battle selects her best mid-year reads
Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads
Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads
Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads
Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads
From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far
Anjana Ahuja selects her best mid-year reads
John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads
This year’s much-anticipated Summer Books series is close — and, as ever, we want to hear from you
Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads
Three books on birds and their biannual odysseys encourage deeper thought on our relationship to the planet as a whole
Two books raise serious questions about the country’s exports of intelligence weapons — but both fail to fully address the implications
Adam LeBor selects his best mid-year reads
Clive Cookson selects his best mid-year reads
Richard Fairman selects his best mid-year reads
Alex Clark selects her best mid-year listens
Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads
Publication of ‘The Snow Forest’ is being delayed due to concerns from Ukrainian fans about its Russian setting
Eco-lessons to learn from migrating birds; Richard Ford’s farewell American road trip; Israel’s murky arms sales; Daniel Finkelstein’s family Holocaust memoir; Catherine Chidgey’s New Zealand ‘mean girls’ story; music and race in Caleb Azumah Nelson’s second novel; Ben Judah’s European stories — plus an economics round-up
Tom Rachman uses lockdown life to explore the psyche of his elderly female protagonist through a series of stories
The New Zealander’s eighth novel is a chilling story of vulnerability and violence in a Catholic primary school
Caleb Azumah Nelson’s novel about a young black man’s coming of age shifts between intimacy and tragedy
First encountered in 1986, Frank Bascombe sets off on a valedictory road trip to bow out in resigned but witty style
Ed Conway’s lucid book explores the mines and quarries beneath the ‘ethereal’ economy of technology and services
Daniel Finkelstein’s account of his ancestors’ experiences of the Holocaust is sobering, elegiac and, at times, even joyful
The novelist was the last conjuror of a now vanished America
The search for 2023’s ‘most compelling and enjoyable’ business title is under way
A collection of first-hand narratives that explore the danger, uncertainty and aspirations of living in Europe
From the roots of Britain’s postwar decline to a dissection of crashes and how to tame technology
The novelist explores the idea of sin against the backdrop of Ofili’s paintings on the same theme
The historian examines how medical knowledge and political force intersect to fight epidemic disease
Not all former spies and politicians have the skill to write the twists and turns of an edge-of-your-seat thriller
A fictional last opera by the composer takes centre stage in an ambitious, entertaining novel full of comic brio
A slender novel from one of our greatest writers is a reminder to prize every moment we get with her on the page
Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe
Tim Burrows traces the history of a county that has become a byword for brashness and rebellion
The former poet laureate’s second memoir charts a brilliant career underpinned by his ability to network
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