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2009 FT/GOLDMAN SACHS BUSINESS BOOK AWARD
The winner
Liaquat Ahamed’s ‘Lords of Finance’ swept away a strong field of finalists for the 2009 prize
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On the side of the angels
Four new books show the startling extent to which images of the next world still both reflect and shape life in this one
Heaven and the Afterlife
Pocket Guide to the Afterlife
Who Goes There?
The Garden and the Fire
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No Enchanted Palace
Mark Mazower offers a scholarly review of the origins of the UN and how it has failed to live up to the heady expectations raised by its founding fathers
The Invention of the Jewish People
Tel Aviv professor Shlomo Sand attacks long-standing myths and pushes forward many controversial points in his survey of Jewish history, identity and culture, writes Simon Schama
The Letters of TS Eliot
Valerie Eliot and Hugh Haughton gather correspondences for this long-awaited second volume, which corrects misconceptions and reveals the poet at breaking point
Getting Our Way
Sir Christopher Meyer writes a history book, a retelling of ‘500 years of adventure and intrigue’ in British diplomacy, and pleads for a coherent foreign policy, says Quentin Peel
Each Step Should be a Goal
Recalling the first 63 years of his life, former French president Jacques Chirac manages to keep as much hidden as he reveals in this account of his political transformation
Hergé
Pierre Assouline’s even-handed portrait of the man behind Tintin, who in spite of his shortcomings, has left well-crafted graphic novels
The Country Diaries
Alan Taylor compiles an anthology of first-hand observations on British rural life as seen by illustrious writers from different centuries
Fiction
Your Face Tomorrow 3
In the final volume of Javier Marías’s spy trilogy, Spaniard Jacques Deza begins to question the morality of his profession while working for a shadowy London agency as an interpreter of character
A Dead Hand
A writer travelling in Calcutta gets dragged into a murder case after receiving a letter from a beautiful woman asking his help in this latest novel from Paul Theroux
The Others
Writing under the nom de plume Siba al-Harez, an unnamed narrator gives a raw account of her relationship with a peer in a girls’ school in Saudi Arabia
Esther’s Inheritance
From Sándor Márai comes a novella about an impoverished old maid who receives a visitor from her tumultuous past
The Children’s Hours
Richard Zimler and Raša Sekulović aggregate a collection of stories touching on various topics from immigration to bullying
The Humbling
Philip Roth revisits familiar themes of ageing and impotency in his latest tale about a tragically doomed actor who, in his mid-60s, discovers he can no longer act
Ransom
A work of immediacy, humanity and tenderness, David Malouf’s seventh novel that retells the ‘Iliad’ is as rewarding as its original
Dear Book Doctor
Pregnant pause
I’m about to go on maternity leave. Will anyone remember me or take me seriously when I return?
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Columbine
A faint gunmetal grey sky dominates the sparse cover conceived for Dave Cullen’s masterful retelling of the 1999 Colorado massacre
Small Talk
David Malouf
What am I most proud of writing? ‘Imaginary Life’. If you’re lucky as a writer you get one ‘gift’ book where you break through into a different kind of writing
