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Dec 3, 2012
From 3D printing to the perfect Zen garden, FT writers and guests pick their favourite books from the past year
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ESSAY
Nov 23, 2012
John Banville on the enduring fascination of the Irish monastic masterpiece
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NON-FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
The new book from the author of ‘The Black Swan’ calls for resilience in the face of stress
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FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s novel is a tale of fate and forgiveness set in the wake of Colombia’s drug wars. Review by Ángel Gurría-Quintana
NON-FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
The essays collected in Julian Barnes’s ‘Through the Window’ exhibit the astringent virtues of his novels but are somehow more revealing of the writer himself
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FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
‘Carry the One’, Carol Anshaw’s study of the life-long bonds of shared trauma and guilt, questions the possibility of redemption
NON-FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
Daniel Tudor’s ‘Korea: The Impossible Country’ explores the two sides of a success story
FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
Ian Rankin’s cranky Edinburgh detective returns with a spring in his step in ‘Standing In Another Man’s Grave’
FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
Nicholas Coleridge’s rags-to-riches tale of a seductress who scrambles her way to the pinnacle of English society
FICTION
Nov 23, 2012
Amos Oz’s linked short stories grow from a placid opening into an unexpected encounter