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The Light of Day

The Light of Day
  • Author(s): Eric Ambler
  • Location(s): Turkey
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): late 20th century

The Light of Day was the basis for Jules Dassin’s classic film, Topkapi. When Arthur Abdel Simpson first spots Harper in the Athens airport, he recognizes him as a tourist unfamiliar with city and in need of a private...

Bliss

Bliss
  • Author(s): O Z Livaneli
  • 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...

What Only We Know

What Only We Know
  • Author(s): Catherine Hokin
  • Location(s): Berlin, Aldershot
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Present Day &World War II

A door slammed and the unmistakable sound of boots came crashing up the hall. Liese held her little daughter’s hand so tightly, the tiny fingers had turned purple. The SS officer’s hand was at Liese’s throat before she saw...

The Tainted

The Tainted
  • Author(s): Cauvery Madhavan
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1922 to 1982

It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with...

Enlightenment

Enlightenment
  • Author(s): Maureen Freely
  • Location(s): Turkey
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 21st century

The celebrated translator of Orhan Pamuk’s Nobel Prize-winning Snow offers an arresting vision of contemporary Turkey, in a story of first love, betrayal, and one American girl trapped in the fray.

On the Bone

On the Bone
  • Author(s): Barbara Nadel
  • Location(s): Istanbul (Constantinople)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporayy

The brand-new Istanbul crime thriller staring Inspector Cetin Ikmen, ‘the Morse of Istanbul’ (Daily Telegraph), from Barbara Nadel. ON THE BONE is perfect for fans of Donna Leon. In Istanbul – the golden city on the Bosphorus – ancient...

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...

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule
  • Author(s): Amanda Craig
  • Location(s): Cornwall, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When Hannah is invited into the First-Class carriage of the London to Penzance train by Jinni, she walks into a spider’s web. Now a poor young single mother, Hannah once escaped Cornwall to go to university. But once she...

Indelible Scars

Indelible Scars
  • Author(s): Pete Harvey
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Joe is young and idealistic, with a thirst for adventure and a desire to make a difference in the world. When given the opportunity to travel to East Timor as an aid worker, he jumps at the chance, with...

Jazz, Perfume & the Incident

Jazz, Perfume & the Incident
  • Author(s): Seno Gumira Ajidarma
  • Location(s): East Timor (Timor-Leste), Jakarta (Batavia)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

In Jakarta’s gleaming center a man and a woman watch each other from adjoining skyscrapers. The man, a journalist, has on his desk reports he doesn’t dare publish of a massacre in East Timor. He contemplates the demands of...

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