Synopsis: "From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to present day. It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glass-blowers in Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision.

Eighty years on, the Nuremberg trials, for all its imperfections, remain the world’s most audacious attempt to tame barbarism with law.Courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg today has lon...

A young British correspondent sent to decode Mao’s China instead became one of the earliest symbols of hostage diplomacy.Anthony Grey, who passed away last month aged 87, first learned what it meant t...