Heather Morris hit the bestseller lists with her fictionalised account of a Holocaust survivor's life, The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Now she's written a controversial sequel.
By Angela Kiverstein
This book mixes searing detail with laconic wit, says David Winner
By David Winner
Stoddard Martin hails a major new work as possibly today’s ‘Great American Novel’
By Stoddard Martin
Big Questions, Brief Intentions, Edited by Rabbi Dr Raphael Zarum,London School of Jewish Studies
By Simon Rocker
There is a spiritual intensity here which pervades both the poetry and the prose of this memoir, says Peter Lawson
By Peter Lawson
An authoritative survey of how this most malleable of words was understood in different ways over the centuries, says Howard Cooper
By howard cooper
Etgar Keret is a master of melancholy, but also of terror, says David Herman
By David Herman
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JC literary editor Gerald Jacobs previews a literary festival that has established itself among the best in a short time
By Gerald Jacobs
This history of the J Lyons company and the family that ran it is a (mostly) gripping read, says Robert Low
By Robert Low
This book presents a beautifully clear introduction to Marx’s thought and its Hegelian origins, says Vernon Bogdanor
By Vernon Bogdanor
This book is ideal for anyone who already firmly believes that today’s youth are little more than pathetic, feckless ingrates, says Daniel Sugarman
By Daniel Sugarman
A work of literary criticism that is full of sailors, little girls, monsters and vampires, says David Herman
Agony in the Pulpit, Marc Saperstein, Hebrew Union College, £81
By Rabbi Sylvia Rothschild
This book about creatives and scholars exiled by the Nazis is an impeccably researched yet eminently readable book, says Daniel Snowman
By Daniel Snowman
This incisive work transmits to us in these dark days of political turmoil, says Colin Shindler
By Colin Shindler
Helen Peters speaks to Angela Kiverstein about being 'terrified' of writing from the perspective of a child of the Kindertransport