Bøker av Tim Franks

A moving journey through a Jewish family history from BBC Newshour presenter Tim Franks. Tim Franks spent years as the BBC's Middle East Correspondent covering Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories. During that time, he was attacked from both sides - sometimes accused of being a self-hating Jew, other times an Islamophobe - but he responded to it all with a reporter's detached curiosity, drawing a clear line between his identity and his work. It wasn't until years later that Franks asked himself, what does it mean to be Jewish? And how has it informed his journalism?It was a question he struggled to answer. As a child in 1970s Birmingham, Tim Franks had hardly any relations or sense of lineage - it wasn't until he learnt about the history of diaspora Jews that he realised why his family history was so difficult to trace. Setting out on a journey in search of his ancestral roots, Tim Franks' research takes him from Constantinople to Cadiz and Auschwitz, Lithuania and even Downing Street. The ancestors he discovers each speak to a part of the Jewish story, from risk-taking rabbis and struggling artists to Benjamin Disraeli, a convert who became the Conservative Party's "unlikeliest" ever leader. This book is a moving, deeply empathetic memoir which encourages us all to confront the lines we draw. In searching for what it means to be Jewish, Franks discovers what it means to take a stand and write about the world.

Shadows line the road to redemption.Detective Jamie Seagrief didn't always share an office with lackeys of a government he despises.Raised on a rundown Manchester estate, he found purpose as an army nurse, battling Ebola in Sierra Leone. He even met his wife there. Then her death drove him home. Blaming himself, he seeks redemption by working for the police. But in a Britain different from the one he left, it's not easy to find.Now a mutilated torso has surfaced in a Sheffield canal, and Jamie must race to catch a killer he believes will strike again.Forced to work with newly transferred Shona McCulloch, Jamie resists her efforts to curb his recklessness. But as the case drags him deeper into a corrupt underworld, and with his every move being watched, Shona might just be his only hope of salvation.'Perfectly executed... without a wasted word or moment.' - Ray Robinson, author of Electricity