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The White Castle

The White Castle
  • Author(s): Orhan Pamuk, Victoria Holbrook (Translator)
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 17th Century

From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and...

Three Daughters of Eve

Three Daughters of Eve
  • Author(s): Elif Shafak
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party – a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to...

Travels With My Aunt

Travels With My Aunt
  • Author(s): Graham Greene
  • Location(s): Paris, Brighton, Istanbul (Constantinople), Paraguay
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and...

Waiting for the Tulips to Bloom: Adrift in Istanbul

Waiting for the Tulips to Bloom: Adrift in Istanbul
  • Author(s): Lisa Morrow
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Modern

When the dream of living in a foreign country is rudely shattered by gritty reality, there are two choices. Turn tail and run or bravely face what life throws at you. Welcome to a roller coaster ride through the...

Water & Glass

Water & Glass
  • Author(s): Abi Curtis
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Future

In the lower depths of a massive submarine, ship’s zoologist Nerissa Crane takes an ultrasound of a heavily pregnant Asian elephant. The elephant conceived off-ship but, it transpires, was forced on board – along with Nerissa and a hastily...

Without a Country

Without a Country
  • Author(s): Ayse Kulin
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

From the international bestselling author of Last Train to Istanbul comes a novel based on true events that explores the depths of pride, devotion, and persistence as four generations of a family struggle to forge their destinies. As Hitler’s...

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