Editor's Choice - Books

David Grossman

David Grossman, one of Israel's leading writers, talks about his new book To the End of the Land.

The novel is a moving plea for peace, told through the story of Ora, a mother who is agonising over her son's decision to re-enlist in the Israeli army; an experience sadly familiar to the author, who lost his own son Uri, to Israel's second war with Lebanon in 2006.

Elif Shafak

The best-selling Turkish writer embarks on a cultural tour of her home city, Istanbul. The Strand follows as she begins her tour in a café in the Tunel region of the city, high on a hill above the famous waterfront.

Scott Turow

On his sequel to 'Presumed Innocent', 'Innocent', returning to the character of Rusty Sabich, now sixty and once again in the dock facing murder charges.