Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare and valuable white...

Galip searches both for clues and for his own identity following the disappearance of his wife. He assumes she has gone find her first husband, Celal, a well-known newspaper columnist. Celal, too, has disappeared and Galip immerses himself into...

Istanbul. Seat of empire. Melting pot where East meets West. Fingertip touching-point between continents. Even today there are many different versions of the city, different communities, distinct peoples, each with their own turbulent past and challenging interpretation of the...

The story of one woman’s experience between WW1 and Turkish Independence, beautifully told again a stunning backdrop.

Buried deep under Istanbul, a secret is about to resurface with explosive consequences…… Zegliwski has been savagely beheaded. His body is found hidden near the sacred archaeological site of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul….When Sean Ryan arrives in the ancient...

The book is set in Istanbul, where the glories of the Ottoman Empire have long vanished. One of the quirkier attractions of the modern city are the transvestite clubs, which offer a wide variety of diversions (some of them...

When humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful and seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape riddled with poverty, corruption, and voodoo. It’s the late 1990s, a time of brutal...

A city at once ancient and modern, Istanbul is the quintessential postcard-perfect metropolis. But the alluring vistas can be deceiving, for beneath this veneer as a meeting place of cultures, religions and ethnicities lies a heart of cold-blooded darkness,...

In her second novel written in English (The Saint of Incipient Insanities was the first), Turkish novelist Shafak tackles Turkish national identity and the Armenian “question” in her signature style. In a novel that overflows with a kitchen sink’s...

Kati Hirschel is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring and old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room, Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own...