Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a documentary series, will be produced by Karga Seven Pictures, examining ...

Simon Sebag Montefiore's book "The World" investigates the history of humanity through families - the Caesars and Borgias, the Kims and Tudors, Roosevelts and the House of Saud. The book spans a ...

Yet, in firing the imagination, as Montefiore puts it, the city "has become the essential place on earth for the communication of God and man." William Shakespeare wrote of leaving "this troublous ...

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 ...

: In this age of email and instant messaging, the art and, indeed, craft of letter-writing is arguably a fading skill. The writer Simon Sebag-Montefiore has compiled some remarkable epistles that ...

Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — The word family, Simon Sebag Montefiore writes ...

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 ...

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.” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The World: A Family History is being developed as a TV project by The History Channel. If greenlit, the series, which is being developed as a ...