• The best books on Bosnia - Postcards from the Grave by Emir Suljagic
  • The best books on Bosnia - The Quick and the Dead: Under Siege in Sarajevo by Janine di Giovanni
  • The best books on Bosnia - Genocide on the Drina River by Edina Becirevic
  • The best books on Bosnia - When Neighbors Were Real Human Beings by Eli Tauber
  • The best books on Bosnia - A Balkan Journey by Chris Leslie

The best books on Bosnia, recommended by Velma Šarić

As a teenager, Velma Šarić’s hometown of Kladanj welcomed refugees from eastern Bosnia as it was bombed and shelled, her primary school eventually becoming a shelter for people fleeing the massacre at Srebenica. Now she runs Sarajevo’s Post-Conflict Research Centre, trying to prevent anything like it from ever happening again. She recommends books to read on the Bosnian War and explains that it was not a war between different communities, but rather an assault on the country’s multiethnic, multicultural identity.

  • The best books on Charlemagne - King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne by Janet Nelson
  • The best books on Charlemagne - Charlemagne: Empire and Society by Joanna Story (editor)
  • The best books on Charlemagne - Ich und Karl der Große: Das Leben des Höflings Einhard by Steffen Patzold
  • The best books on Charlemagne - Charlemagne's Practice of Empire by Jennifer Davis
  • The best books on Charlemagne - Conquest and Christianization: Saxony and the Carolingian World, 772–888 by Ingrid Rembold
  • The best books on Charlemagne - Saxon Identities, AD 150-900 by Robert Flierman

The best books on Charlemagne, recommended by Carine van Rhijn

We call him Charlemagne, but it was not a name that was used in his own lifetime. His conquests stretched across vast swathes of Europe, but he probably didn’t set out to become an emperor. Much has been written about him, but very little is known. Dutch historian Carine van Rhijn, a lecturer at the University of Utrecht, recommends the best books on Charles, King of the Franks.

  • Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books - On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
  • Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books - The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books - The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
  • Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books - The Story of San Michele by Axel Munthe
  • Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books - Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain Fournier

Nick Clegg on his Favourite Books

Much as some Brexiteers like to pretend it isn’t, England is not only in Europe, but has been, in various centuries and in various ways, at the very heart of it. The former Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, Nick Clegg, discusses his favourite European novels and the founding text of his own political ideology, liberalism.