My latest non-fiction work is a psychological investigation into the Madoff fraud. The Believers: How America Fell for Bernard Madoff's $65 billion Investment Scam steps inside Madoff's world, from the salons of Manhattan to the luxurious country clubs of Palm Beach. By focusing on the psychology of the fraud, the book reveals how some of the richest and most sophisticated investors in America could fall victim to a collective delusion for decades. Read more in The Times. The Believers will be published in the US in January 2010.

City of Oranges, my book about Israel and Palestine, tells the true story of six families in Jaffa, three Jewish and three Arab. It has been critically acclaimed by The Times, The Guardian, the Jerusalem Post and Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, among others, and was shortlisted for the 2007 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize. The US edition, published by WW Norton in May 2007, was an Editor's Choice in the New York Times.

Complicity With Evil, published in the UK and US by Yale University Press, investigates the UN's actions in Rwanda, Srebrenica and Darfur, and focuses on the role of UN officials. Complicity with Evil was selected as an "outstanding" title by the American Association of University Presses.

My other books include A Heart Turned East, a journey among Muslim minorities in the West; a critically acclaimed biography of Slobodan Milosevic, and the best-selling Hitler's Secret Bankers, which was published in seven languages and short-listed for the Orwell Prize.