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How I managed to write my (very annoying) first novel

After a lifetime of trying, I have finally found my literary voice – by becoming a Jew

By Michael Kretzmer

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November 26, 2025 13:32

Anti-woke awakening: author Michael Kretzmer and (left) his debut

The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

Lionel Zetter’s novel captures the rapacious spirit of Britain’s political centre

By Jennifer Lipman

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The Lobbyist review: A fun yarn of bribery, corruption and bonkfests galore

What Have I Done? review: A highly entertaining autobiography by the oft-maligned ‘Blackadder’ writer

Jewish comedian and writer Ben Elton settles old scores in this frank account of his life in showbiz

By Jenni Frazer

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The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

The art historian Dan Cruikshank tells the story of the English house through eight very different buildings and, in the process, tells the story of the Jews in England

By Jenni Frazer

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November 16, 2025 13:36

The English houses brought to life with Jewish stories

From the Einstein of sex to letters by Oliver Sacks: meet the authors on the 2026 Wingate Prize longlist

The shortlist will be announced in mid-December and the winner early next year

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A selection of the titles on the 2026 Wingate Prize longlist

‘I won’t be known as the Baroness Lovell Cocks!’

The legendary Lady Cocks on her hotly anticipated memoir in which she spills nearly all the beans on a life rich in event and incident

By Jenni Frazer

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This is how we defeat Britain’s far right

A welcome guide on combatting extremism from a figure who can draw on decades of hard-won street-level experience doing exactly that

By David Bennun

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October 29, 2025 15:07

This is how we defeat Britain’s far right

The Right of Passage review: a harrowing tale of a couple trapped in Nazi Europe

This moving and tense Holocaust memoir is a fitting tribute to a remarkable and courageous husband and wife whose lives ended in the most appalling circumstances, and who might otherwise be forgotten

By Robert Low

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Distinguished: the logician Kurt Grelling translated Russell Bertrand's books into German

Fall, Bomb, Fall review: ‘haunting on the Dutch experience of war’

Originally published in 1950, and now translated into English by the Pushkin Press, the teenager at the centre of this novel is so bored he wishes for all-out war...

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Fall, Bomb, Fall review: ‘haunting on the Dutch experience of war’

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These dark stories that remind us that Stefan Zweig was one of the greatest Jewish writers

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Goodbye to Berlin – a lost Jewish Germany is brought back to life in an epic saga

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John Irving’s latest: ‘an unapologetically Zionist heroine’

‘He was one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived’

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