Sebastian Mallaby‘s biography of former chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan,The Man Who Knew, won the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Shortlists were announced for the UK’s Costa Awards in four categories. The nominees include: Novel Days Without End, by Sebastian Barry (Viking/Faber & Faber) This Must Be the Place, by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf/Tinder Press) The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry (Custom House/Serpent’s Tail) The Gustav Sonata, by Rose Tremain (Norton/Chatto & Windus) First Novel The Good Guy, by Susan Beale (John Murray) My Name is Leon, by Kit de Waal (S&S/Viking UK) The Words in My […]