Cookery
Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley, Ebury Press
Modern Palestinian-inspired cooking that tempts your tastebuds and brings Middle Eastern flavours to the home cook with 110 recipes. Ottolenghi restaurant co-founder, the Jerusalem-born Sami Tamimi, collaborates with food writer Tara Wigley to take us through Bethlehem, Nablus, Haifa, Galilee, the West Bank and more, telling the stories behind the food.
Literary fiction
Suncatcher by Romesh Gunesekera, Bloomsbury
It’s 1964 and Ceylon is in political turmoil. Schools are shut and at a loose end, schoolboy Kairo lives in his books, comics, collection of toy cars and scooting off on his bike. His left-wing father and mother have raised a well-mannered boy, who gets there is no pocket money. Then one day he meets rebel Jay, hurtling on his…
