'Steyn illuminates the intricate human muddle of hopes, anxieties, fears and disappointments of that feverish period ... Clothed in smoothly written prose, this is a history that strikes a fine balance between scope and detail.' Bill Nasson If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality […]
Jonathan Ball, Love Books and The Reading List invite you to the launch of House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, by Hadley Freeman. Freeman, a well-known journalist at The Guardian, pieces together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir found in a shoebox containing her grandmother's treasured belongings, to create […]