Maria Crawford
@mariacrawford.bsky.social
Deputy Books Editor, Financial Times
as.ft.com/r/4341cf36-6... Authors Lyse Doucet and Virginia Evans win the 2026 Women’s Prizes
Authors Lyse Doucet and Virginia Evans win the 2026 Women’s Prizes
The BBC journalist’s ‘The Finest Hotel in Kabul’ took the non-fiction award, while the American novelist’s debut ‘The Correspondent’ was the judges’ fiction pick
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Peter Mandelson made more than £1.5mn selling his shares in Global Counsel before the advisory firm collapsed over his links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein - while his former colleagues’ shares ended up worthless www.ft.com/content/8785...
Mandelson received more than £1.5mn for stake in collapsed advisory firm Global Counsel
Former business secretary paid £250,000 for his remaining stake days before business went into administration
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Essential reading from the great Najmeh Bozorgmehr in Tehran as.ft.com/r/cfd55ca4-0...
Iran executes Khamenei’s plan to spread regional war
[FREE TO READ] Strikes on energy facilities and targets across Middle East form strategy devised to sow chaos in retaliation for US and Israeli attack
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'A Hymn to Life is novelistic and resounds with grace', writes Rebecca Watson in her review of Gisèle Pelicot's new book. It also gives us a great deal to think about and re-examine: marriage, memory, the caricaturing of criminal and victim, and much more, in a story of survival, courage and grace
FT Weekend@ftweekend.com · 6mo agoGisèle Pelicot's new memoir, 'A Hymn to Life', documents her struggle to keep her identity alive in the aftermath of her husband’s monstrous crimes. Read on here: ft.trib.al/m5bNYZe
Emerald Fennell's new Wuthering Heights prompted Tom Robbins @ftweekend.com to send me to Yorkshire🍃 I followed in Emily Brontë's footsteps, rambled the moors, stayed in her room and embraced wintry isolation in honour of her wild, timeless, unadaptable novel. It was dreamy as.ft.com/r/9f5b51f0-7...
My weekend at Wuthering Heights
[FREE TO READ] As a new film brings a fresh generation of fans to Emily Brontë’s classic novel, Maria Crawford heads for the wild moors that inspired it
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Happy New Year everyone! Get your reading year off to a great start with our tip-of-the-iceberg selection of titles to look out for in 2026 📚https://as.ft.com/r/887b4659-419c-46b2-bf12-1dcd1bde9fd3
What to read in 2026
[FREE TO READ] From the Ozempic story to books on power, money and the new world order — plus fiction by Julian Barnes, Amitav Ghosh and others — here are some top titles to look out for in the new ye...
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Festive short story time! 🎄🔔 Grab a copy of this weekend’s FT and be sure to save the Life & Arts section for that moment on Christmas Eve/Day when the madness has subsided - and enjoy our brilliant piece of winter fiction, “An Unexpected Volume of Calls” by Denise Mina… as.ft.com/r/8c4bd8e7-e...
Today's literary advice clinic hours are 1pm-2pm. Come along!
FT Weekend@ftweekend.com · 8mo agoCome and say hello to FT books editors Frederick Studemann and Maria Crawford in a live Ask an Expert Q&A on Friday 5 December at 1pm GMT. Post your question ahead of time via the box in the article, or submit one as the conversation unfolds on.ft.com/4pLYMHZ
It’s here! Our annual, bumper FT round-up of the best reads of the year - from economics and food to history and fiction and so much more - as selected by our critics and editors. Lots to inspire the mind, lift the spirits and make you smile. on.ft.com/4nYjkeU The best books of the year 2025
The best books of the year 2025
From economics, politics and history to science, art, food and, of course, fiction — our annual round-up brings you top titles picked by FT writers and critics
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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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‘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.
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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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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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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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… www.ft.com/content/6c74...
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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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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The Deserters by Mathias Énard — dual storylines inspired by the fallout of war https://www.ft.com/content/c6cf7ac1-27a0-47d4-bf19-9c873fd3f3b5
The Deserters by Mathias Énard — dual storylines inspired by the fallout of war
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