Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. The past few months have been unsettling for Simon Sebag Montefiore. The toffy historian ...

Stephen Sebag-Montefiore was the son of Colonel Eric Sebag-Montefiore and Audrey Haldin. His father, nicknamed Colonel Blood for his irrepressibly expletive laden stentorian boom (and for once chasing ...

Speaking with British historian Simon Sebag Montefiore, let alone trying to make a serious dent in his vast written output by some sustained reading before our meeting, is a daunting task. It is clear ...

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The book begins with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago, and from there Montefiore takes the reader on an epic journey through the families, kingdoms and civilisations ...

The prize-winning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore draws on a true story for his second novel, set in Moscow just after the second world war and peopled with both real and fictional characters. A mix ...

"The World" tells the story of the human family through families the Caesars and Borgias, Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts, Hapsburgs, Saud and families that are similar in kind - Plato and Confucius, ...

Some time in the late eighth century BC, a prophet named Isaiah foretold great things for his native city. “It shall be exalted above the hills,” he declared, “and all nations shall flow unto it.” ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Mary Sebag-Montefiore adapts adult classics for children and has rewritten everything from Wuthering Heights to War and Peace. Here she chooses the classics every child should read before they are 10 ...