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A disappearing sun, adventure by a real astronaut, nanotech in Dhaka, a dystopian Texas and short stories to fuel the imagination
What’s not working in the world of work, the lyrics of Paul McCartney, the stratagems of Henry Kissinger, memories of a lost Yugoslav homeland, a magnum opus from Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, the FT/McKinsey business book 2021 — plus Barry Forshaw’s round-up of crime fiction
This autobiographical novel about a vanished Yugoslavian homeland and unease in a new country frays reality
The Polish Nobel Prize-winner’s magnum opus is a dazzling achievement, aided by an equally deft English translation
This story of an irresolute head of household and his family in late Victorian Manchester sings with period detail
WFH, presenteeism, the ‘Big Resignation’ — one novel and two searching non-fiction books shine a spotlight on dramatic changes in working culture
Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta returns; German conspiracy; Budapest bravura; and Michael Connelly in post-George Floyd LA
A bitingly funny and surprisingly moving meditation on the nature of identity from the author of ‘His Bloody Project’
Now the predictions of his bestseller ‘The Circle’ have been superseded, his sequel to the dystopia has had to reach deeper
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The Nobel-winner wrestles the complex and fascinating story of Guatemala and US corporate ambitions into a compelling narrative
This story set in small-town Ireland offers a view of a conflicted society through the eyes of a faithful father
Plus: an anachronistic Pride and Prejudice at the Criterion and the wives of Henry VIII fight back at the Vaudeville
The Booker-winner’s handsome collection of stories brings together tales from her preoccupations over the past 50 years
An exodus from Moscow; undercover in central Russia; a network of agents in wartime Berlin; and a hitman with a heart
The second part of a three-part historical fiction of the 20th century is impeccably researched but unevenly delivered
The Neapolitan writer’s latest novel returns to the fertile soil of a single, fraught relationship
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