Fresh takes on ancient Greece, Shakespeare and true crime are among this year’s standout collections For many poets in 2023, the climate crisis became the most urgent subject, with warnings to grab ...

Elton John scores, Ronnie O’Sullivan delivers on cue, and ‘Bazball’ takes off in the year’s finest sportswriting Watford Forever John Preston and Elton John, Viking The year is 1977. Elton John is one ...

Granted, jewels are easier to sew into hemlines when fleeing your country, opals may protect against curses, and a diamond ring can be used to scratch a threatening message onto a mirror hanging in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Books of the Year 2023 draws together recommendations from FT writers and critics across a wide range of ...

2023 was the hottest year on global record — and that’s not the only reason this year made climate history. As we hit these milestones, we have also learned that a warming planet does not affect us ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan ...

It has been a busy year for bookworms. In 2023, literary heavyweights Bret Easton Ellis, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Attwood and Zadie Smith returned to the scene and published new work, in some cases, ...

The Book Who Wanted to Be Loved by John Bittles & Rebecca Elliott (No Alibis Press) A heartwarming and thrilling tale about belonging, friendship and more. This Children’s picture book is a ...

The best (and worst) fiction books of 2023, from Eleanor Catton to Zadie Smith Never mind the A-list – this year’s best books came from unsung names, indie presses and odd archival depths.

I seem to be getting more virtual books than paperbacks or hardbacks. Being a dinosaur, I cannot read books online and so I print them off, hogging the office printer for hopefully not too long. As ...