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Deputy Books Editor, Financial Times
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Congratulations to the winner of the 2025 Booker Prize: “a singular achievement”, say the judges; a masterpiece of spare prose (István may well go down in literary history as the character who changed a million readers’ understanding of how many meanings “okay” can have) www.ft.com/content/94ff...
David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ wins the 2025 Booker Prize for fiction
Judges praise ‘singular achievement’ of sparsely written novel that traces a man’s unlikely social ascent from Hungary to the world of London’s super-rich
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November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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‘We had never read anything quite like it. It is, in many ways, a dark book but it is a joy to read’

We're delighted to announce Flesh by David Szalay as the winner of the #BookerPrize2025.
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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The Booker Prize 2025 shortlist is here and it’s a battle of (mostly Gen X) literary heavyweights. Predictions welcome! www.ft.com/content/e73f...
Established novelists dominate a Gen-X Booker Prize shortlist
The 2025 award is notable for shortlisting proven names and for the absence of debut fiction or small independent publishers
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September 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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In Murderland, Caroline Fraser argues that there's a link between a region's serial killers and pollution from industrial smelting — yes, really, there is some evidence. Here's our columnist Nilanjana Roy's take on the book, alongside Marcia Bjornerud’s Turning to Stone www.ft.com/content/7364...
The ground beneath our feet — and the books that show its wonders and its warnings
In their different ways, both ‘Murderland’ and ‘Turning to Stone’ ask readers to reconnect with the Earth
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July 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Still think the obesity epidemic's a willpower issue? Felicity Lawrence reviews two books that examine an industry of ultraformulated junk foods produced and distributed by a globalised food system built on cheap commodity ingredients, fossil fuels — and powerful lobbying www.ft.com/content/4d46...
Food, fat and pharma — what is really wrong with what we eat
In two books — one compassionate and scientific, the other angry and polemical — David Kessler and Stuart Gillespie tackle the root causes of the obesity crisis
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July 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
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Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’
[FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back
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July 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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The FT's novel of the week is (drumroll...) Among Friends by Hal Ebbott. If you haven't selected your summer fiction yet, this smart, compelling and unsettling read is a great one to add to your list on.ft.com/469ux7q
Among Friends — a betrayal beyond repair
[FREE TO READ] Hal Ebbott’s powerful debut novel shatters our expectations when the comfortable world of two families is blown apart in one reckless moment
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July 13, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The Deserters by Mathias Énard — dual storylines inspired by the fallout of war

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The Deserters by Mathias Énard — dual storylines inspired by the fallout of war
News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the worldʼs leading global business publication
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May 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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We're looking for our next Fashion Editor to lead the FT Style team on FT Weekend. What a job job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
March 17, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM