What to read this summer

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19 July 2026

** TOP TEN SUMMER READING
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Whether you're travelling this summer or staying closer to home, here are ten recently published books we've been reading over the past few months. Spanning literature, history, art and ideas, we hope they offer good company wherever the summer takes you.

Read on for our recommendations and enjoy our new JBW fiction events on the JLF Player.

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (https://us.list-manage.com/kYEmaB1jvSF?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Deborah Levy

Deborah Levy's latest novel follows a narrator who travels to Paris to understand Gertrude Stein, exploring friendship, desire, art and language through the enduring legacy of one of modernism's most original voices.
On Strategists and Strategies (https://us.list-manage.com/sQecPuYaDUi?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Lawrence Freedman

Drawing on history, politics and military thought, Lawrence Freedman examines how individuals and societies have approached strategy, and why strategic thinking continues to shape the modern world.
The Nuremberg Women (https://us.list-manage.com/yLAX0G3naya?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Natalie Livingstone

Through the stories of eight women, including journalists, lawyers, artists and survivors, Natalie Livingstone sheds new light on the Nuremberg Trials and restores overlooked voices to one of the defining moments of the twentieth century.
Hotel Exile (https://us.list-manage.com/5CSWxcaF4ob?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Jane Rogoyska

Jane Rogoyska tells the story of Paris's Hotel Lutetia, whose guests included artists, writers and political exiles before it became, in turn, a Nazi headquarters and a place of return for concentration camp survivors.
Digging Deep (https://us.list-manage.com/goqPYto9KB8?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

David Bolchover

Before the Holocaust, Jewish players and coaches stood at the heart of European football. David Bolchover tells the stories of eleven outstanding footballers who were murdered by the Nazis, restoring them to their rightful place in the history of the game.
The Renoir Girls (https://us.list-manage.com/lm8V5ViOg1A?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Catherine Ostler

Beginning with Renoir's celebrated portrait Pink and Blue, Catherine Ostler traces the lives of two sisters from the Jewish Cahen d'Anvers family against the backdrop of Belle Époque Paris and the rising tide of antisemitism.
Black Messiahs (https://us.list-manage.com/9w6ZkvEU_4d?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Steven A. Holmes

Inspired by a true story, Black Messiahs follows Black American soldiers during the liberation of Europe alongside a young Jewish boy struggling to survive Nazi persecution, bringing together two stories shaped by the same war.
A Sudden Flicker of Light (https://us.list-manage.com/XvcmPtDrAUk?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

David Thomson

Widely regarded as one of the world's finest film critics, David Thomson looks back over more than a century of cinema, asking how films have entranced us, shaped our imaginations and changed the way we experience reality.
Making the Cut (https://us.list-manage.com/OFP9scSc5hg?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Max Olesker

When Max Olesker falls in love with an Orthodox Jewish woman, he discovers that, despite his upbringing, he is not recognised as Jewish. His account of conversion is a candid and often funny exploration of identity, faith and belonging.
To Life: Jews Exploring Nature (https://us.list-manage.com/e04fHE_fzF_?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)

Joel Greenberg

>From botanists and birders to ecologists and explorers, Joel Greenberg traces the lives of Jewish naturalists whose work reshaped our understanding of the natural world and reveals an overlooked chapter in both Jewish and scientific history.

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** New releases on the JLF Player
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Family Affairs: From Salonica to the Open Road (https://us.list-manage.com/oPa3phF1LnS?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)
Dreamers: When the Writers Took Power (https://us.list-manage.com/v3a7JvPQYxo?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)
Lionel Shriver in Conversation with Zoe Strimpel (https://us.list-manage.com/d4sGRgbRZCL?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)
Robert Alter on Nabokov (https://us.list-manage.com/GW9jfAP8MnE?e=9da8a37a61&c2id=8c9df1b0d7fc57cd1e0b9229f4070fb0)
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