Toby Lichtig talks us through this year's Booker shortlisted novels, plus a couple of others, and Lucy Dallas reports on the French scene (where real life and fiction blur...); finally, we explore the situation in Israel and Palestine from three rather different perspectives.

An Army Like No Other: How the Israel Defence Forces made a nation by Haim Bresheeth-Zabner 

The Conflict over the Conflict: The Israel/Palestine campus debate by Kenneth S. Stern

The new peace? – Israel’s unexpected ray of light by Ari Shavit – www.the-TLS.co.uk

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