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An extraordinary story about the first all-female flying squadron told through the eyes of its only Jewish member, The Night Witches is an empowering portrait of friendship and sacrifice, from the Crooks Corner Book Prize-longlisted author of In the Shadow of the Greenbrier. 1976, Baltimore...

Eigentlich dachte Ari, der Ich-Erzähler von Maxim Billers neuem Roman, Ende der siebziger Jahre sei das Schlimmste vorbei gewesen: Nach ihrer Flucht aus der kommunistischen Tschechoslowakei, wo sein Vater als Jude und Zionist vom Geheimdienst überwacht wurde, landeten er und seine Familie in einer Hamburger Altbauwohnung im legendären Grindelviertel. Dieser nachdenkliche, mitreißende, hochpoetische Roman, den man auch als Prequel zu Maxim Billers gefeiertem Memoir Der gebrauchte Jude lesen kann, gibt auf diese Frage eine überraschende und zugleich sehr reflektierte Antwort.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz returns with a masterful new novel that captures the astonishing bravery of ordinary people in extraordinary times. In 1942, the Nazis come for a Jewish family living in the Montparnasse area of occupied Paris. In the chaos...

Six years after Lev Livitski’s catastrophic break-up with sultry Angela Pizatto, he’s become a lawyer at a NY law firm. But Lev is haunted by his passion for Angela and by remorse over the collapse of their secret love affair. Doubting his capacity to love, Lev takes refuge in abstinence and isolation. Although raised Orthodox, he remains estranged from Jewish practice.

Golems and dybbuks and Nazis, oh my! Jacques Fux, Brazil's answer to Philip Roth, offers a remarkably original and entertaining work of autofiction that is essential listening for those interested in the Jewish experience in Latin America. Winner of Brazil's prestigious São Paulo Prize, Jacques...

Based on the true story of the first school to train guide dogs for the blind, USA Today bestselling author Alan Hlad’s latest novel is a fascinating, poignant, and life-affirming tale of heroism and resilience in World War I . . . By April 1916, the fervour that accompanied war’s outbreak...

Dora Simon is comfortable in her retirement, indulging her interests in gardening and music. Joe O’Cleary is content on the Jersey farm he helped rebuild with its owner, Geoffrey Laurent. But their worlds are shattered by the arrival of Barbara Hummel, who is anxious to track down the identity...

A wonderfully tender and moving novel by award-winning author Robert Hillman. Tom Hope doesn’t think he’s much of a farmer, but he’s doing his best. He can’t have been much of a husband to Trudy, either, judging by her sudden departure. It’s only when she returns, pregnant to someone...

Perth, 1954: Thirteen-year-old Frank, a refugee from wartime Hungary, is learning to walk again after contracting polio. At The Golden Age Children’s Convalescent Home he meets Elsa and the two patients form a forbidden, passionate bond. The Golden Age becomes the little world that reflects...

Deeply in love and about to marry, students Misha and Sophia flee a Warsaw under Nazi occupation for a chance at freedom. Forced to return to the Warsaw ghetto, they help Misha's mentor, Dr Korczak, care for the two hundred children in his orphanage. As the noose tightens around the ghetto...

"I promise to write only what I saw and lived through, not hide anything from you. I'll tell you even the worst things I experienced, which may seem crazy or impossible... I remember them well. It all happened in the world we left behind." 1942, Lvov. Bina Krakowski is almost seven when the...

Berlin, 1938. It’s no longer safe here. When the Jewish families of Berlin start disappearing in nightly raids, 21-year-old Jacob Kagan knows it’s only a matter of time before the trucks come for him. Along with his family and best friend, he flees the country he’s always called home to find shelter in a Dutch refugee camp. Before long, the Netherlands falls to the Nazi war machine — Jacob’s new home is transformed into a transit camp with weekly trains bound for the horrors of the Eastern concentration camps.

Boaz is fated to live, love, marry, age, and mourn. And then do it again and again, throughout time, until the Mashiach (Messiah) is born from his lineage. But this last love...

“Merav Fima’s splendid debut is an homage to the magic of the city of Jerusalem, interlinked through the lives and art of the women who shaped Israel’s cultural heritage.” Zsolt Alapi, author of My Brother’s Keeper Ten women. All of them migrants. All of them artists. A singular location: Jerusalem. Anna Ticho is a seasoned Viennese hostess who longs to start painting again, though the desolation of Jerusalem offers little inspiration. Even though Rachel is gaining a reputation as the national poetess, she is ostracized by her colleagues due to her illness.

Spain, 1935: When Vivi arrives in Madrid, she is captivated by the city. Full of heat and colour, it is a world away from the grey of her life as a lonely newlywed back in Berlin. But her diplomat husband and beloved brother Christian are here for one reason only: to bring the Nazi regime to Spain, and to destroy everything that stands in their path.

In this freewheeling romp by the author of the post-Holocaust novel Not Me (“Nothing short of brilliant” —Baltimore Sun), the final pilgrimage of the great Andalusian Hebrew poet Yehuda Halevi frames a tale of Jews getting into trouble across centuries and continents, still looking for...

When desperate choices mean the difference between life and death. Inspired by true events, Bright One tells the story of Jetti Finkelthal, Lisajoy Sachs' great-grandmother. In Czernowitz, Romania, this young Jewish mother is forced to face impossible choices as the world begins to collapse around her.

Every family holds to secrets, but some are far darker, reach deeper, and touch a rawer nerve than others. Vanesa Neuman is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her childhood in the cramped intimacy of south Tel Aviv is shadowed by her parents' unspoken wartime experiences. The past for her was a closed book… until her father passes away and that book falls literally open. Vanesa must now unravel the mystery of the diary she has received—and the strange symbol within—at all costs.

He was the most beautiful man in Israel, but beauty is a fragile shield against the silence of a King. Absalom, the golden prince of Jerusalem, has everything: the adoration of the tribes, the lineage of a warrior-king, and a mane of hair so legendary it is weighed annually against the royal standard. But beneath the silver chariots and the public adoration, a cold fury is hardening. When his sister Tamar is brutalized and King David—the man after God's own heart—chooses the path of silence over justice, the bond between father and son is irrevocably severed.

Bloomsbury presents To Be a Man written and read by Nicole Krauss. An electrifying short story collection from 'one of America's most important novelists' (New York Times); the twice Orange Prize-shortlisted author of the bestselling The History of Love A TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘One of our most...