Financial Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Supremacy... recounts the battle between OpenAI’s Sam Altman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis to develop the world-changing technology of generative AI, while also grappling with the ethical and commercial imperatives set by their respective backers at Microsoft and Google.

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In an age when Boris Johnson tries to appeal to working-class areas, Truss, says a Tory MP, ‘tries to look like Margaret Thatcher’. Her credo? The 2012 paean to free markets ‘Britannia Unchained’, penned with Thatcherites Priti Patel & Dominic Raab https://t.co/VY8vmtZkuR https://t.co/JGPvDIIsVb

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Our reviewer Lional Shriver is delighted with Ian McEwan's latest novel 'Lessons', which hinges on a boy's relationship with his teacher https://t.co/RLKJSQecP3

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Crisis management is often approached as damage control and risk assessment, but James and Wooten offer an optimistic alternative. The prepared leader, they argue, is one who can convert failures into lessons, resilience and growth opportunities.

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'[Devi] Sridhar accurately predicted the beginnings of the crisis that has gripped the world over the past two years.' The FT reviews her new book, Preventable: https://t.co/AEa4fMuGed

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In Growth: A Reckoning, Daniel Susskind, turns his attention to the question of how to resolve the tension between the quest for growth at all costs — creating inequality and environmental damage — and the need to preserve what we value.

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Ottessa Moshfegh has the rare distinction of being as critically lauded as she is widely read, says our critic, calling her new novel Lapvona a 'dramatic departure' for one of America’s most exciting — and most provocative — young novelists https://t.co/5IDt2WCTMc

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Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King... takes a close and unflinching look at one of the world’s richest men in an attempt to disentangle Gates’ multiple complex interests and relationships, while at the same time exploring our obsession with billionaires.

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Are you interested in reading about the planet? 🌍 FT business columnist @pilitaclark shares her favourite 2022 titles covering climate and the environment – including @GeorgeMonbiot's Regenesis, @BenRawlence's The Treeline & more…📚 #summerbooks2022 https://on.ft.com/3OewKm8

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Maggie O’Farrell brings Shakespeare's world to life in such granular detail that 'you can almost see the motes of dust dance in the sunlight and feel the warmth of the ashes slumbering in the grate'. What will Hamnet's stage version be like? https://t.co/PhVbZi93aJ