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My first novel, The Budapest Protocol, is scheduled for publication in spring 2009 with Reportage Press. It's a fast-paced political conspiracy thriller set in Budapest during the election campaign for the first president of Europe. The Budapest Protocol is fiction but was inspired by fact - a 1944 US intelligence document I discovered a decade ago while researching Hitler's Secret Bankers. Click here for more details.

My latest non-fiction work is an exposé of the United Nations' failure to confront genocide. 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.

Click here to read my article in Standpoint magazine about why the new UN Human Rights Council is not fit for purpose.

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.

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.


Welcome to my website - I am a British author and journalist, based in Budapest. I started work as a foreign correspondent in 1991, covering the collapse of Communism and the Yugoslav wars. I've worked in more than 30 countries, enjoyed some hair-raising adventures along the way, and now report on Central Europe for The Times. As a budding novelist and literary critic, I review thrillers and crime novels for the Economist, and non-fiction for the Sunday Telegraph, Literary Review and the Jewish Chronicle. I also contribute to the Sunday Times, the New York Times, Monocle and Conde Nast Traveller. On the web I write for Harry’s Place and More Intelligent Life. I recently presented and co-wrote Jaffa Stories, a documentary for the BBC. It's based on my book City of Oranges, and features several of the people who appear in it. Click here to read about my exhilarating, intriguing and sometimes even poignant recent US book tour.