The Great Flood: Travels Through a Sodden Landscape

Edward Platt was born in 1968 and lives in London. His first book, Leadville, won a Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. He is also the author of The Great Flood and The City of Abraham, a journey through Hebron, the only place in the West Bank where Palestinians and Israelis lived side by side.