Weimar Germany'Sebestyen reminds us once again why he is one of the best historians writing today' ANDREW ROBERTS 'As gripping as a novel . . . what canny insight this book offers into the insecurity of our own times' ANNE SEBBA 'Could not be more timely' TIM BOUVERIE 'All our politicians should read it' CLARE MULLEY In the years after the First World War, Berlin was as Vladimir Nabokov described it a place 'of dangerous glamour and worldliness, of tawdry cynicism,

For they have a long

he'd faded into family folklore

Jackie Morris

We often need the help from those smaller than us

Discover the joys of slow travel

A lovely but innocent girl

about her family

was imprisoned for marrying a sixteen-year old girl without her father's consent

the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies

for spending recklessly on lavish parties and for ignoring the Muslim majority

she was interested in what Wales meant

' - Oliver Burkeman