Jonathan Freedland discussed his best-selling book The Escape Artist and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore quizzed experts on Vladimir Putin's war at fifth annual Cliveden Literary Festival
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Keiron Pim's biography of one of the greatest writers of the 20th century is a dark story, movingly told
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Jews in John Boyne's work are reduced to landscape rather than real characters
Jaren Ziegler, Dora Fidler and Isaac Reuben, all 17, have been shortlisted for writing and music awards
By Karen Glaser
Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the founder of America’s flagship feminist Ms magazine, has written a wonderfully uncompromising book
By Jenni Frazer
It’s hard to disagree with human rights lawyer Adam Wagner when he writes in his new book that 'British society became as close to a police state as in living memory' when coronavirus struck
By Robert Low
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Orlando Figes' new work is a truly incisive and important dissection of this country's troubled past
By Colin Shindler
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Widow, 89, reveals how the pair unveiled the full, uncensored story of the massacre to the world
By Nic North
Moving story told in pictures mixing maps, drawings and moving family photographs
A detailed, absorbing book that peels back the complexities of histories to reclaim this figure for a new generation
From the transformation of Dickens' Fagin from contemptible villain to genial personality of the musical stage, the history of Jews and fiction has seen plenty of twists and turns
By Gerald Jacobs
The horrors of the Holocaust brought shudderingly to life from the point of view of a small child who could barely read or recognise numbers
Fascinating chronicle of the Nazi-occupied French capital shows how the most everyday issues seem more important than the biggest historical issues of the day
Critics attacked John Boyne's 2006 novel for obscuring the historical reality of the Holocaust. Now he's back with a follow-up
Tidhar's blockbuster work shows us the thieves, the tramps, the prostitutes, the violence, filth and corruption underlying the good behind the Zionist dream
