- 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): 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...