Simon Sebag Montefiore's The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East is an instant New York Times bestseller

We are very pleased to announce that The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East by Simon Sebag Montefiore is an instant New York Times bestseller!

The Cauldron was published in the US by Knopf, an imprint of Penguin Random House, on 29th September and has gone straight to no. 6 on the list of bestselling hardback non-fiction.

The Cauldron takes the reader on a spectacular journey from the Ottoman sultanate to the Trump presidency, from Morocco to Iran, in 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. This is the essential story of how the Middle East of 1900 became the Middle East of today - and tomorrow.

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