The Editor - July 20th, 2011
The critically acclaimed author of Jerusalem: The Biography shares his top six for this year’s summer reading …
Bismarck by Jonathan Steinberg
The new biography of the iron chancellor brings this dark, semi-insane and brilliant character to life
Rivers of Gold by Hugh Thomas
The second volume of Thomas’s history of the Spanish Empire: both simply magisterial
A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
A superb, gripping and darkly funny novel
The Great Sea by David Abulafia
An outstanding history of the Mediterranean that I couldn’t put down
The Hare with the Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
A Proustian memoir of a Jewish family which moves from Vienna and Odessa to Paris and Japan
Levant by Philip Mansel
An amazing chronicle of the great Levantine cities from Alexandria to Salonika
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