Really good by Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 on.ft.com/3OOWBmV

‘The Physics of Sorrow’ and ‘The Story Smuggler’ by the International Booker winner are wistfully revealing about life in post-Communist Bulgaria: on.ft.com/3SBgoas

Colin Mayer advocates the power of business — but calls out what is wrong, and how profit could benefit people and the planet. Tap here for our book review: on.ft.com/47FhFD6

Four books look at the forging of a new Ukrainian national identity in the furnace of war — and a glimmer of light in the Russian exiles who have fled their homeland. Tap here for our books essay: on.ft.com/3O9xhYv

A job for the CIA — its global reach inspires the latest spy thrillers, from ex-CIA David McCloskey to Tess Gerritsen, spooks and subterfuge, espionage and danger from Moscow to Beirut on.ft.com/3TSGgRo

Applications open for the FT's trainee scheme. Please tell budding reporters. Some tragic cases join the FT this way and never leave. ft.com/content/314ff7…

ICYMI: The best nonfiction books of 2023, the six brilliant books shortlisted for @bgprize, the UK's premier nonfiction book prize:
fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…
This year's judges were Fred Studemann, Andrea Wulf, Arifa, Ruth Scurr, তানজিল রশীদ , Andy Haldane (@theRSAorg)

Want to know which fiction titles to buy / give / talk about this winter? Here's the FT's list, complied by Andrew Dickson and me
ft.com/content/57b365… via @ft

Books of the Year 2023 has landed 📚

Dreaming of the holidays, FT critics and editors look back at the best titles of 2023 across all genres, and share their reading lists.

Watch this space. We'll update the thread with new roundups throughout the week👇ft.com/booksof2023

My science books of 2023. A personal selection that appealed to me. Not claiming that they are really 'the best', despite the FT headline ft.com/content/03cccd… via @ft

Hear more from the #BGPrize2023 judges on why Fire Weather by John Vaillant was their winner #nonfiction #winner #fireweather #johnvaillant Sceptre Books

‘Thrillingly told’ account of Canadian wildfire scoops Baillie Gifford prize ft.com/content/b936fd… via @ft

NEW: The Best Nonfiction Books of 2023. Fred Studemann, literary editor Financial Times and chair of the judging panel for this year's @bgprize (the UK's premier nonfiction book prize) talks us through the six brilliant books that made the shortlist:
fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…

Listen to me on the latest episode of the Financial Times's political fix podcast, with Lucy Fisher Miranda Green and George Parker for the story behind the story this week...

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When book reviews make news : top class work from the excellent Soumaya Keynes

My review of ‘Toxic’, Sarah Ditum’s new book - pop culture treated with rare seriousness

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The new book from Rachel Reeves cuts and pastes from Wikipedia, The Guardian, a fellow MP and other unacknowledged sources in at least 20 examples of apparent plagiarism. Scoop from Soumaya Keynes, George Parker, Rafe Uddin, Euan Healy, Stephanie Stacey ft.com/content/e4c190…

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My first newsletter is on what I told Ben Bernanke (former Fed chair) about how the broken Bank of England needs to change its forecasting and communication

Lot's more inside - ft.com/content/913d36…

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Here's us on the tough process of filing wonderful 13 longlisted books down to the six on this year's Baillie Gifford Prize shortlist Fred Studemann Andrea Wulf তানজিল রশীদ #RuthScurr #AndyHaldane

How a tiny London publisher picked two Nobel Prize winners ft.com/content/56d59a… via @ft

And then there were four …