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- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
As a child, Mevlut always felt like he was missing out. When he moves to Istanbul – ‘the centre of the world’ – he is immediately enthralled. He wanders through its alleys for forty years, working as a street...
- Location(s): Iran, Istanbul (Constantinople), Ottoman Empire, Vienna
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 17th century
Evliya Celebi was the Pepys of the Ottoman world—a diligent, adventurous and honest recorder with a puckish wit and humour. He is in the pantheon of the great travel-writers of the world, though virtually unknown to western readers. This...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): 20t century
When the wife of one of Istanbul’s best known popular singers is found dead and his baby daughter missing, the newly promoted Inspector Suleyman, scion of one of Turkey’s most aristocratic families, finds himself plunged into the magnificently vulgar,...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. She has learned the corrupt ways of her adored city and soon takes possession of an apartment obtained with the help of a generous bribe...
- Location(s): Anatolia, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a sheikh in a dervish order, rapes her–and condemns her to death for shaming the family. Asked...
- Location(s): Idaho, Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Historical
- Era(s): 15th Century/contemporary
Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity’s last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single ancient text. Together, they tell a story of a world in peril; of the power of...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 19th century
A remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbor – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote, breathtaking visual observation and entertaining...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1999
Turkey, 1999. A devastating earthquake brings Istanbul crumbling to the ground, ripping apart the fragile stability of Sinan’s world. His family home becomes a makeshift tent in a camp run by Western missionaries whom he stubbornly distrusts, and he...
- Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
- Genre(s): Spy, Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
Following on from the acclaimed debut novel Beside the Syrian Sea, this is the second title in a planned trilogy about loyalty and betrayal in the modern world. An authentic thriller about the thin line between following your conscience...