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Earlier this year, we published our selection of member’s libraries around the globe. It promoted a flurry of responses regarding remarkable reading rooms. Here are some of your favourites…
What is life really like in the ‘vast and florid’ mansions of Bellevue Avenue?
Plus the joys of Maharishi trousers, service-station chilli sauce and competing on the rowing machine
The British-Ghanaian philanthropist and founder of the Manketti Oil range shares her favourite hangouts in her childhood hometown
A nasty break-up and its repercussions put the spotlight on fractured siblings and their absent father
Join the book club – from New York to Naples
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Six coffee-table tomes investigate the meaning of style
Leading psychoanalyst Susie Orbach talks about the need to achieve
The artist explores depictions of the Roman goddess in her latest body of paintings
From The Hobbit to The Gruffalo, these nursery classics are ageing very well
Kakimori’s in-house ink shop – where you can create your own unique colour – ticks all the write boxes
From edible flowers to desert living – new books rethinking the urban and the natural
A fragment of the planet Mars, Chinese snuff bottles, a rare Monet – and more
From sheer to opaque, black nylons herald a return to glamour this season
In Jessica Au’s second novel, a trip to Tokyo is the backdrop to a tense recalibration in a mother-and-daughter relationship
These four collections are a inspiration in themselves
From botanical remedies to plant-dyeing projects and naturalism, set your intention for 2022
In October we published a list of FT writers’ favourite bookshops. Here are the nominations you thought we missed...
Feast your eyes on apples, abstract expressionism, snow, Sophie Calle – and more
The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips questions what it means for us to ‘get better’ as individuals
From ancient tomato sauce to ‘Why Not Eat Insects’? Feed the imagination with these culinary treasures
The Neapolitan writer’s latest novel returns to the fertile soil of a single, fraught relationship
The Oxford hardware shop scours the globe for designs to spark joy
FT writers nominate awe-inspiring places to get your literary fix, from Mumbai to Buenos Aires
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