Monument to deported Jews, Grunewald station Berlin. Nazi-ruled Berlin, 1942: Jews were being 'deported' daily and taken off to...

'I know no one ever believes us nowadays – everyone thinks we knew everything. We knew nothing, it was all kept well secret....

Music affects me in two ways when I’m writing. Firstly, there’s the music that actually occurs in the novel – a lot of Django Reinhart and...

David Starkey has announced in various media that Wolf Hall is a 'deliberate perversion of history', (though he has neither read ...

I was thinking of this as we drove out of London just before New Year; when I saw a pub sign that was a metal bunch of grapes, thought: That...

I have been reading Elizabeth Jane Howard's memoir 'Slipstream' and read about an American who told her, in 1946, that 'we...

Among the few things I have that stem from my mother's girlhood is a collection of five books for children and young girls dating from...

I don't have a photo of my mother as a teenager, but here she is aged 20. Gerda, my mother, was the daughter of a police office...

 Maria and Hans  In 1943, Maria von Maltzan, a German aristocrat, took Hans Hirschel, her Jewish lover into her Berlin apartment to...