This is a beautiful and powerful debut novel examining intergenerational trauma, inherited guilt and all-consuming love
By Lianne Kolirin
This is an incisive and persuasive account of how the story of the Second World World has been the West’s defining narrative of the past 80 years. But when the author predicts the resurgence of a Christian tradition, his polemic becomes vaporous
By David Bennun
This is a gripping account of young and unassuming American journalist Varian Fry’s mission to save the literary and artistic greats of his day
By Amanda Hopkinson
From royal rescue missions to understanding the liminal ritual of havdalah, here are the season’s four best new books for toddlers, teens and those in between
By Angela Kiverstein
This is a fascinating piece of work about people’s dreams in Nazi Germany
By Alun David
Historian Cécile Desprairies’ debut novel is a dark and powerful account of the French men and women who eagerly embraced evil
By David Herman
This forensically researched and lengthy tome uses previously unearthed documents that throw light on Stein’s personal relationships and her attitude to her work and legacy
By Monica Porter
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This fictionalised portrait of Austrian film-maker GW Pabst and his moral struggles under the Nazis immerses us in a world thick with fear, corruption and self-deception
This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s greatest biographer
By David Isaacson
Yael van der Wouden’s bold debut novel charts the emotional aftermath of the Holocaust in a post-war Netherlands
By Eliana Jordan
This report on the new face of the far right is timely and frightening in equal measure
This new book about the search for the real Dylan could be more enlightening
By Jenni Frazer
This is a fascinating account of a terrible murder by a Jewish pedlar in eighteenth century England and an excellent example of historian Tony Kushner’s important work documenting the life and culture of Jews in Britain
In her new memoir, Yehudis Fletcher writes compellingly about arranged marriage, parental neglect and sexual abuse in Charedi Judaism
By Jennifer Lipman
From means girls and ill-fated crushes to swashbuckling seagoing sagas, here are the three best new books for kids aged nine and over
This terrible war crime story does an enormous service to the Nobel Prize-winning physicist’s wider family
For my latest novel I studied the east London of my forebears. This is what I found
By Andrew Sanger
This is an invaluable, clear and rather terrifying account for lay readers of the history, development and possible future of artificial intelligence
By Robert Low
This gripping expedition into an arcane world of book collectors and their eccentric passions papers over an even more intriguing yarn about family history
A deeply affecting portrait of a pious family’s trials and turmoil in an eastern Europe on the brink of collapse
By Mark Glanville
First published in 1982, this book about the choices of ordinary people in war sold more than 200,000 copies and inspired an Oscar-winning film. Now it has been republished with a new introduction
The human rights lawyer’s latest book reveals the links between the notorious Chilean dictator and the Nazi inventor of the ‘gas vans’
