An impartial account of the post-War history of Israel and the Middle East
Swift’s 2025 Books of the Year
‘Extraordinary’ | ‘Superbly suspenseful’ | ‘Deeply moving’
We’re delighted to end 2025 with thirteen fiction and non-fiction Books of the Year selected across Swift and Forum:
• A Beginner’s Guide to Dying by Simon Boas
• Can We Be Great Again? by Jeremy Hunt
• Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt
• God is an Englishman by Bijan Omrani
• Hostage by Eli Sharabi
• Presumed Guilty by Scott Turow
• Pots of Gold by David Hendon
• Reparations by Nigel Biggar
• Taking Manhattan by Russell Shorto
• The Incidental Feminist by Tina Gaudoin
• Margaret Thatcher by Iain Dale
• The Seventh Floor by David McCloskey
• The War on Science edited by Lawrence Krauss













