Books

Book review: Children Against Hitler

Each story is a catalogue of close escapes and reading them is at times uncomfortably thrilling

Book review: Hitler’s Last Hostages

This exceptionally well-written book documents how Hitler was the cause and the Gurlitts the effect in a poisonous equation

In pursuit of elusive truth

Book review: On Turpentine Lane and Good Riddance

Elinor Lipman is a clever writer, who offers accessible entertainment, but she also asks her own questions about what the purpose of literature might be

Book review: All This Could be Yours

Attenberg suggest that a wholesome life is not always a straightforward choice

Book review: The Slaughterman’s Daughter

Iczkovits is a born storyteller and has done his research for this historical novel

Book review: The Anointed

'Michael Arditti is one of the few writers able to convey the experience of being religious, without apology or explanation'

Book review: Edith Halpert and Rachel Feinstein

Two books that tell the lives of two women who cracked the masculine world of art

Book review: Sweet Noise - Love in Wartime

American photographer Max Hirshfeld, tells the tale of his Shoah survivor parents in a unique way