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Anita Shreve
Who is my perfect reader? A man who is intrigued by my writing. Most of my fans are women
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Moonlight’s children
Under a climate of greater openness something remarkable is happening to Pakistani literature
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
The Wasted Vigil
Burnt Shadows
Other Rooms, Other Wonders
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Non-fiction
The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs
A weighty, deferential book about the bank’s history that’s full of anecdotes to offset the evident rapacity of the investment banking environment, says Paul Myners
The Age of Wonder
The 18th century provided a compelling fusion of art and science, a period when men and women of letters were as excited by scientific discoveries as scientists were by poetry
Remix
A law professor campaigns to reform US copyright laws, fighting against the vested interests behind the government’s ‘war on piracy’
Florence Nightingale
A remarkable new biography seeks to extract the real from the myth, using a wealth of family papers that have recently come to light
The Art of the Public Grovel
An engaging, sophisticated and wholly persuasive account of how some politicians get away with transgressions
China Witness
A series of raw interviews with a remarkable collection of older Chinese about the sense of purpose and idealism inspired by the early years of Mao Zedong’s rule
Millennium
A historian presents the story of the Middle Ages as one defined by high politics and territorial conquest
Fiction
The First Person and Other Stories
This collection of short stories, which are linked loosely by shared themes and speaking voices, feels too much like ‘literary fiction’ is supposed to feel – the devices are comfy and relaxed, too much at home
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
A middle-aged widow who believes she fits the stereotype of the unlovable French concierge and a 12-year-old girl who contemplates on suicide slowly become friends, each recognising the other’s fine mind
A Chapter of Hats and Other Stories
An anthology from one of Brazil’s foremost fictionists who made his name satirising the ambitions and hypocrisies of Rio’s bourgeoisie
The Stepmother’s Diary
A modern relationship triangle between a teenage daughter, her father and his new wife is given a new shape and tests common assumptions
The Lemur
A once-celebrated investigative reporter puts commercial gain over journalistic principle in this undemanding tale of murder, corruption and adultery
Doors Open
A fast-paced, intriguingly plotted tale of a heist in Edinburgh’s art world, featuring the city’s shadier side
The Almost Moon
An overbearing matriarch is killed by her daughter in the first short chapter of this fascinating novel that presents two characters and an awkward subject
Dear Book Doctor
Snoring beauty
My girlfriend is wonderful in every way except that she snores. By morning, I am so fed up I can barely look at her. What should I do?
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Bound for Glory
The first edition’s dust jacket was illustrated by Woody Guthrie and had a kind of Hollywood-style socialist-realist painting of noble migrants
Book awards
Business Book of the Year 2008
Six titles from more than 200 entries made it to the shortlist of the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award
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