Books

Lies and truth

It's a good year for YA thrillers

Rezso Kasztner: Saviour or collaborator?

Paul Simon: sublime songs, flawed character

Homeward Bound, the Life of Paul Simon, by Peter Ames Carlin, Little Brown, £20 pp415

Book review: Soulmates by Jessica Grose

Spielberg's story

A fascinating new biography of the man who made ET and Schindler's List.

Selling books without borders

Most great books transcend their national setting and language and can speak to people anywhere, says Adam Freudenheim. Its a statement on which hes staked his future.

Her mermaids sell millions

Bestselling children's author Liz Kessler has a new book out, a ghost story for teenagers.

In the footsteps of a brave, bruised father

Nachman Libeskind was a remarkable man, and this book, written by his daughter Annette, sister of eminent architect Daniel Libeskind, is a loving testament to Nachmans strength, courage, humanity and optimism.

Gerald Jacobs: love letters straight from the heart

It is a slightly worrying thing, the task of reading a colleagues book and interviewing him about it, especially as in this case the colleague is Gerald Jacobs, literary editor of this newspaper since the late 1980s, who, as a result, knows as much about books, and Jewish books in particular, as many a professor of literature.