It was Christmas Day 1988, the day after Lyse Doucet's 30th birthday when she first stepped foot in the Inter-Continental Kabul, the hotel that has stood constant throughout the last few turbulent decades of Afghanistan’s history. In The Finest Hotel in Kabul, Lyse Doucet tells the history of Afghanistan through the story of this landmark hotel and through the lives of the staff that kept it going. Out now. | Penguin Books