Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Cauldron is a Sunday Times number one bestseller

We are thrilled to announce that Simon Sebag Montefiore's latest book, The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East is a Sunday Times number one bestseller!

The Cauldron was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson on 25th August 2026 and went straight to the top of the hardback non-fiction charts.

It is the essential story of how the Middle East of 1900 became the Middle East of today - and tomorrow. Taking the reader on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, from Morocco to Iran, The Cauldron is a dazzling panorama of faith and fanaticism, creativity and tolerance, dictatorship and democracy brought to life by an extraordinary cast of kings, warriors, poets, terrorists and peacemakers.

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