You don’t need to be going abroad to be transported to distant shores with our pick of the summer’s best holiday reads. From courtroom dramas to wartime love stories, Jennifer Lipman has you covered.
By Jennifer Lipman
This book about the spy who came to regret his double life inside Argentina’s Jewish world is a structural mess
By Robert Low
The Israeli writer’s latest short story collection features dating, sex, relationships – and deep wells of loneliness in contemporary Israel
By David Herman
The winning translator will receive a £3,000 cash award and be invited to speak at Jewish Book Week 2026
By JC Reporter
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
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This is a fascinating piece of work about people’s dreams in Nazi Germany
By Alun David
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The children’s writer says she thinks of her character Emily as her ‘better and braver part’
By Angela Kiverstein
Historian Cécile Desprairies’ debut novel is a dark and powerful account of the French men and women who eagerly embraced evil
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
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
