Financial Times Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Keiron PimFinancial TimesThose who enjoy literary non-fiction books should check out Carl Wilkinson's selection of the top new titles of 2022 – including @KeironPim's Endless Flight, @irenevalmore's Papyrus and @andrea_wulf's Magnificent Rebels #booksof2022 📚 https://t.co/S51ywrJcrC
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lucky Breaks
Yevgenia BelorusetsFinancial TimesYevgenia Belorusets’ Lucky Breaks is a collection of eccentric stories on sideline encounters with Ukrainian women — manicurists, florists, cosmetologists, card players — whose lives have been caught up in the Donbas conflict https://t.co/OlmNoVaWmL
Paperback, 2022
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir
Paul NewmanFinancial TimesDo Paul Newman’s privately shared outpourings constitute a memoir? And would fellow actor Alan Rickman truly have wanted 26 books of personal diaries pruned to present him as an inveterate name-dropper? Our critic ponders these questions, and more: https://t.co/brXpEJwKjf
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
$35.99$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Supremacy: Ai, Chatgpt, and the Race That Will Change the World
Parmy OlsonFinancial TimesSupremacy... 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.
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Walden
Henry David ThoreauFinancial TimesEver since Henry David Thoreau wrote Walden, his account of life in the woods in Massachusetts, we have fetishised the cabin aesthetic. Today, social media is awash with reimagining utilitarian shelters as accessible destinations for mindful retreats https://t.co/KmbDlf3qPb
Hardcover, 2016
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Seth GoldenbergFinancial TimesThe problems we face “demand the original thinking that begins with asking essential questions”... Goldenberg’s message on 'radical creativity' is set out clearly, making the book an accessible, thought-provoking guide to rethinking personal and professional ways of being.
Hardcover, 2022
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfFinancial TimesThose who enjoy literary non-fiction books should check out Carl Wilkinson's selection of the top new titles of 2022 – including @KeironPim's Endless Flight, @irenevalmore's Papyrus and @andrea_wulf's Magnificent Rebels #booksof2022 📚 https://t.co/S51ywrJcrC
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses: Second Edition
James JoyceFinancial TimesA century on from the publication of 'Ulysses', David McWilliams looks at how James Joyce brought the indigent creative and the uninspired commercial closer together https://t.co/fV8KcUehy6
Paperback, 2022
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The New Wilderness
Diane CookFinancial Times'The New Wilderness' by Diane Cook, 'This Mournable Body' by @efie41209591, 'Burnt Sugar' by @avnidoshi, 'The Shadow King' by @MaazaMengiste, 'Shuggie Bain' by @Doug_D_Stuart and 'Real Life' by @blgtylr are shortlisted for this year's Booker Prize ... https://on.ft.com/32CnrHr
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Growth: A History and a Reckoning
Daniel SusskindFinancial TimesIn 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.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book