<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Fiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fiction]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/stream/cbc60cfa-151c-4df9-a5e7-2ac9e1f6dfd1</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 11:23:59 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ft.com/stream/cbc60cfa-151c-4df9-a5e7-2ac9e1f6dfd1?format=rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2025. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. See http://www.ft.com/servicestools/help/terms#legal1 for the terms and conditions of reuse.]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[client.support@ft.com (FT Client Support)]]></webMaster><ttl>15</ttl><category><![CDATA[Newspapers]]></category><item><title><![CDATA[From cognitive weapons to cannibal cults — the latest sci-fi round-up]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our new selection features mind-bending cyber-horror, dystopian thrillers and a supernatural Western]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5f4a8bb0-953b-42f4-8857-8f96c12c545a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5f4a8bb0-953b-42f4-8857-8f96c12c545a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 04:00:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best books of the week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Gen Z are seeing religion as a cool lifestyle choice; Saudi Arabia’s transformation into petrostate titan; how media aped pornography and demeaned women; the flight from the Nazis of Jewish intellectuals; a new biography of Muriel Spark; wistful short stories by DJ Taylor; posthumous works by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz; a stirring Catalan novel of folklore and the supernatural; our selection of economics titles — plus Nilanjana Roy on reading in sync with the seasons]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/19b2cbcf-4db2-4f7c-ba36-94270de66989</link><guid isPermaLink="false">19b2cbcf-4db2-4f7c-ba36-94270de66989</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 11:40:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poppyland — DJ Taylor’s wistful short stories of lives lived in the margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new collection of tales by this prolific author deserves praise for evoking poignancy and beauty amid nostalgia and neglect ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ec1dba74-9ca7-401a-9897-f2a558b0468f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ec1dba74-9ca7-401a-9897-f2a558b0468f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness — dicing with the devil in deepest Catalonia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irene Solà’s exhilarating novel mixes folklore, history and the supernatural in a heady brew]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7582bbda-aa46-4dae-9fe4-c7d26f68eb67</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7582bbda-aa46-4dae-9fe4-c7d26f68eb67</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 12:36:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Found Myself . . . The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz — reveries from Cairo]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of fragmentary, bittersweet vignettes by the late Nobel laureate builds into a pattern, albeit an elusive one]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5d841ad2-805b-4f4a-a379-c2bc31cdebcb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d841ad2-805b-4f4a-a379-c2bc31cdebcb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you reading in sync with the changing seasons?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From summer hammock to winter fireside, books can chime with the seasonal rhythms lying dormant in our crowded lives]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fa2d43b7-7b33-48e2-86ed-9f28746ab1eb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fa2d43b7-7b33-48e2-86ed-9f28746ab1eb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Booker winners ‘happy Karnataka has won global attention’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on ‘Heart Lamp’, the first short-story collection to win the award]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b885d420-d4b2-4b52-98ad-6fa7972d0cc7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b885d420-d4b2-4b52-98ad-6fa7972d0cc7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 04:00:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way — a female gaze on an Irish family’s legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elaine Feeney’s unlikeable protagonist treads well-trodden literary ground — but what do her observations tell us?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/174b336c-a375-467f-9d1c-ec22b668bb1b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">174b336c-a375-467f-9d1c-ec22b668bb1b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muckle Flugga — Michael Pedersen’s treasured island tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the Shetlands, the debut novel by the lauded Scottish poet showcases his linguistic adventurousness]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/50b70f76-1594-4c9e-b06a-d6a9a4289b71</link><guid isPermaLink="false">50b70f76-1594-4c9e-b06a-d6a9a4289b71</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:00:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl, 1983 by Linn Ullmann — illuminating the shadows of the past ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman looks back on her teenage ordeal at the hands of a Paris fashion photographer in a fictional reshaping of trauma]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f23efee5-3f63-4258-81fd-105eea86dcea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f23efee5-3f63-4258-81fd-105eea86dcea</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi win the International Booker Prize for fiction in translation ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8640e5d3-d5d3-40ee-801a-ffc4c170d538</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8640e5d3-d5d3-40ee-801a-ffc4c170d538</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 21:30:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around the world in five new thrillers — from New York to Nordic noir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Crime in the war-ravaged Balkans of the 1990s, a plot against the UN, geopolitics in Greenland and a Danish police procedural]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/19af1983-0901-464e-80e7-ec56a7e2698a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">19af1983-0901-464e-80e7-ec56a7e2698a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelist Daniel Kehlmann: ‘I wanted to write about complicity’]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Austrian-German writer’s new novel The Director explores totalitarianism through a fictionalised account of the Nazi-era filmmaker GW Pabst. It couldn’t be more timely]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/kehlmann</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1da485ea-63fc-4042-a067-01a342cb3fa0</guid><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 04:00:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anne Serre’s A Leopard-Skin Hat — a metafictional study of an intense friendship]]></title><description><![CDATA[A real-life family tragedy is the basis for this International Booker-shortlisted fable of duty, attachment and mental illness]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1639d351-b0c9-4c1c-8ba8-2b1bab763855</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1639d351-b0c9-4c1c-8ba8-2b1bab763855</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 11:00:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atavists — linked short stories deliver doom with a dose of wit ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Lydia Millet’s collection explores the malaise among the different generations of two LA families]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/dbbddcb6-19ad-477b-9396-fbed239b200e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">dbbddcb6-19ad-477b-9396-fbed239b200e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ripeness by Sarah Moss — the different perspectives of Edith]]></title><description><![CDATA[A luminous tale about borders, bodies and a sense of belonging alternates between 1960s Italy and 2020s Ireland]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c14f220d-a33b-4d42-88e4-bc15c04b91a3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c14f220d-a33b-4d42-88e4-bc15c04b91a3</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 11:00:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z are changing what it means to be a ‘reader’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Panic about the demise of book reading is overblown — across genres, formats and devices, young people are finding and creating their own storytelling communities]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/41fc29dd-082f-4a4a-97f6-1d8e67a74eda</link><guid isPermaLink="false">41fc29dd-082f-4a4a-97f6-1d8e67a74eda</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 04:00:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best new crime fiction — from an exuberant Stephen King to a pulse-racing Carlo Lucarelli  ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus Karin Slaughter, Vaseem Khan, Alex North, SJ Parris and Taku Ashibe — it’s a bumper crop]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c38f1054-952a-46f4-9e30-e9996469c236</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c38f1054-952a-46f4-9e30-e9996469c236</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 04:00:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jemima Kelly: my week with ‘the Janeites’ — as Austenmania grips Bath]]></title><description><![CDATA[As Bath celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary, Jemima Kelly dons bonnet and bows to join devotees on a Regency-themed tour]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/99d685c8-1dd5-4017-9568-9b9929a29688</link><guid isPermaLink="false">99d685c8-1dd5-4017-9568-9b9929a29688</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 04:02:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi — no safety in numbers]]></title><description><![CDATA[The novel explores the idea of the self through the character of Kinga, a woman with dissociative identity disorder who has seven ‘alters’, one for each day of the week]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/24fc1515-c529-4d84-a41e-a226bc0b0e2e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">24fc1515-c529-4d84-a41e-a226bc0b0e2e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 11:00:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong — life on the edge in blue-collar America]]></title><description><![CDATA[The second novel by the celebrated poet returns to themes of loss, poverty and unlikely friendship]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/4ee15065-d790-457b-80a2-ced40cef22fa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">4ee15065-d790-457b-80a2-ced40cef22fa</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 04:00:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Deserters by Mathias Énard — dual storylines inspired by the fallout of war]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Prix Goncourt-winning author’s newly translated novel explores the abandonment and violence wrought by conflict in Europe]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c6cf7ac1-27a0-47d4-bf19-9c873fd3f3b5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c6cf7ac1-27a0-47d4-bf19-9c873fd3f3b5</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 04:00:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Propagandist — Cécile Desprairies’ novel explores her family’s wartime shame ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The celebrated historian of Vichy France recalls her closest relatives’ collaboration with the Nazis in a harrowing but elegant fictional debut]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/6d497be3-512e-42f0-ab69-6b769c31f7ef</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6d497be3-512e-42f0-ab69-6b769c31f7ef</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 16:00:57 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Best new debut novels — from Nigerian house girls to Arizona gun merchants]]></title><description><![CDATA[Funmi Fetto’s tales of nine African women; Issa Quincy’s haunting vignettes; Louise Hegarty’s sparkling yet sad crime novel; Alexander Sammartino’s black comedy; and Saba Sams’ tender take on the messiness of life]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8d9fcb8f-c625-4424-9d61-6409fa89062e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8d9fcb8f-c625-4424-9d61-6409fa89062e</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane Gardam, novelist, 1928-2025]]></title><description><![CDATA[The prizewinning witty chronicler of middle-class life claimed writing was her ‘salvation’]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e7b1e4b4-8a74-4007-95a0-b876fd96ad3c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e7b1e4b4-8a74-4007-95a0-b876fd96ad3c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 04:00:58 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>