I'm on an Armenian roll right now. We were going to go to Armenia this summer to visit an old friend who lives in Yerevan, but trouble in the region has scuppered that. I'm gutted to be honest.
But I'd bought books in anticipation. I've read An Armenian Sketchbook by the great Russian novelist and reporter Vassily Grossman - a kind of travelogue, beautiful, sad, and funny - and am now about a quarter way into Franz Werfel's monumental The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, set during the Armenian genocide of 1915.