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    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Parisian Days by Banine — model citizen

      Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Toy Fights: A Boyhood — Don Paterson’s memoir

      The Scottish poet delves into the murky waters of his life and emerges with clarity and wisdom

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
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      Surviving US healthcare. Plus: Prince Harry’s 'Spare'

      Claire Bushey explores the cost of US healthcare after her treatment for breast cancer. Then, Henry Mance reviews Prince Harry’s autobiography

    • Tuesday, 10 January, 2023
      Review
      Spare by Prince Harry — complain and explain

      The memoir is arguably the most insightful royal book in a generation, yet still leaves readers with many questions about the monarchy unanswered

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewKatherine Mansfield
      All Sorts of Lives — Katherine Mansfield through her stories

      Biographer Claire Harman uses the great proto-Modernist’s fiction to illuminate her dramatic, short life

    • Friday, 16 December, 2022
      Review
      Confessions by AN Wilson — a ‘multiple personality’

      Essayist-biographer’s memoir evokes Rousseau and Augustine as it charts his life’s dramas and traumas

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Dickens and Prince — Nick Hornby’s love letter to prolific genius

      Apart from a prodigious output, what artistic traits did the 19th-century novelist share with the late pop musician?

    • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
      Review
      Wild — the wayward life of Peter Beard

      Graham Boynton’s biography turns the spotlight on the American artist and adventurer

    • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
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      Come Back in September — a literary education in New York

      Darryl Pinckney’s memoir fondly recalls his friendship with Elizabeth Hardwick, the doyenne of the world of letters who mentored and supported him

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Review
      Shirley Hazzard by Brigita Olubas — a writer who felt the weight of history

      A deft biography of the Australian-American author illuminates the alchemical interplay of her life and fiction

    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      Review
      John le Carré: the lover and the letters

      Two very different books reveal the relationship between the former spy and his fiction

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Review
      Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story — Bono’s heartfelt but wordy memoir

      The U2 singer tells the story of his rise from working-class Dublin lad to rock star activist

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Classical music

      Richard Fairman selects his must-read titles

    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Literary non-fiction

      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The unintended memoirs of Paul Newman and Alan Rickman

      Would the actors have wanted private conversations and diaries repackaged and published?

    • Wednesday, 16 November, 2022
      Review
      The Successor — Lachlan Murdoch’s inheritance of a media empire

      Paddy Manning’s biography of Rupert Murdoch’s heir-apparent is colourful, but leaves some questions unanswered

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Review
      Faith, Hope and Carnage — Nick Cave on life and loss

      The Australian musician releases a book of interviews conducted with the critic Seán O’Hagan

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      Review
      The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club — knowledge and power

      Christopher de Hamel brings different worlds to life through the keepers of medieval manuscripts

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      Review
      Raising Raffi — reflections on the challenges of fatherhood

      A memoir by Russian-American writer Keith Gessen offers insight into all parental anxieties from birth to flying the nest

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Review
      Jan Morris: Life From Both Sides — journey of a lifetime

      Amid the demure prose in Paul Clements’ biography of the historian and travel writer are glimpses of a titanic ego

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov — stories of Russian exile

      The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Review
      Getting Lost — Annie Ernaux’s earlier work arrives in translation

      A belated English-language version of 2001’s ‘Se perdre’ comes as the French author wins the Nobel Prize

    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Fresh starts — a round-up of the best debut fiction

      Actor Paterson Joseph stands out in a crop of new writers tackling grief, Ukraine, Samuel Pepys and the first black Briton of letters

    • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
      Review
      Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi — family roots

      A timely memoir that shines light on the global roots of nationalism by tracing four generations of migration between Italy and England

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
      Review
      Endless Flight — a long overdue biography of Joseph Roth in English

      Keiron Pim’s rigorous research puts the life of the itinerant writer in the context of war, upheaval and the end of empire

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