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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
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      How to feed ourselves without damaging our health and our planet; the human history of anti-globalisation; ‘post-fascism’ in Italian politics; what post-invasion life is like for Iraqis; the enduring appeal of vinyl records; Curtis Sittenfeld’s witty new novel; a farcical tale in fruity Polari — plus highlights of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival

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      Man-Eating Typewriter — the seediness of sixties Soho

      This farcical tale of freedom and ecstasy — told in fruity Polari slang — reads as if Jean Genet and Vladimir Nabokov had joined the writing team of the ‘Carry On’ films

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      Collected Works — the Swedish bestseller has its English debut

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    • Friday, 31 March, 2023
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      Hamnet reborn: a pandemic bestseller moves from page to stage

      Maggie O’Farrell’s retelling of the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare struck a chord when it was published in March 2020 — and now it’s coming to the RSC

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      Curtis Sittenfeld’s Romantic Comedy — love life under the spotlight

      This keenly anticipated new novel — about the amorous ambitions of a TV sketch writer — is layered with witty social observation

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      Owlish — a surreal foray into repression and magical escape

      Dorothy Tse’s debut novel draws on protests in Hong Kong to plunge its protagonist into Kafkaesque situations

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      To Battersea Park — a return to lockdown London

      Philip Hensher embraces the pandemic narrative with a mixture of fever-fuelled fantasy and astute social commentary

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      Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh — how desire can lead to betrayal

      The Welsh novelist’s third book is about one tumultuous summer when a small town begins to unravel

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
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      My Nemesis — an excitingly barbed portrait of feminist rivalry

      Charmaine Craig’s novel is a complex, propulsive story of an unapologetically unforgiving woman

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      Tomás Nevinson — Javier Marías’s last great novel

      In the hands of the Spanish master, a tale of espionage becomes a powerful tool for philosophy and cerebral game-playing

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      Crime round-up — return of a Nordic noir master

      The latest novels from Åsa Larsson, Dennis Lehane, Don Winslow and more

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
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      The new talent lighting up Nigeria’s bestseller lists

      The novelist Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on the books creating a homegrown publishing boom

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      In Ascension by Martin MacInnes — a far-reaching epic on the planet’s future

      A blend of deep scientific knowledge and nuanced narrative takes us from the sea to space to highlight Earth’s riches

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      The Anniversary — coercion and power in a marriage hit by storm

      Stephanie Bishop weaves a literary thriller from a story of seduction, success and simmering resentment

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      ‘The Famished Road’ and my quest for the imaginative richness of Africa

      When Ben Okri won the 1991 Booker prize, it was the culmination of a writing journey defined by literary experimentation — and upheaval

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
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      Dr No by Percival Everett — Bond-esque villainy with added verbal trickery

      The Booker-shortlisted American’s 23rd novel has invention and wit but gets lost in its own playfulness

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
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      Africa’s comic book superheroes tell the continent’s forgotten stories

      Local publishers are mining countries’ rich histories and mythologies, boosting global interest and challenging western narratives

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      Best new sci-fi books — aliens, AI and science gone awry

      A gender-flipped Handmaid’s Tale, murderous moths and driverless cars with a mind of their own

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
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      Old God’s Time — Sebastian Barry’s enthralling, haunting new novel

      A broken-down detective reckons with the past in a story full of pathos, love and grief

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
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      Cuddy — a risk-taking epic that north-east England deserves

      Benjamin Myers’s latest novel tells the story of St Cuthbert and his influence from the Dark Ages to the present day

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
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      Visions of Ireland, visions of God — debut fiction to watch out for

      Four distinctive emerging authors evoke lives disrupted by religion, toxic masculinity and Ulster’s sectarian divide

    • Friday, 24 February, 2023
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      The case against rewriting Roald Dahl

      Yes, sensibilities evolve — but outmoded or offensive beliefs can be flagged up in ways short of expunging them altogether

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
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      Forbidden Notebook — a woman in search of agency and expression

      Only now translated into English, Alba De Céspedes’s novel puts us inside the mind of a mother trapped in domestic discontent

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Review
      Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood — gripping and imaginative short stories

      This new collection shows the author in full possession of her powers

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