Blogs in May 2020

Seven Houses 12th May 2020

From internationally acclaimed author Alev Lytle Croutier, Seven Houses chronicles the lives of four generations of remarkable women, sweeping readers from the last days of the Ottoman monarchy to Turkey’s transformation into a republic and the present-day backlash. It...

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Blood, White and Blue 11th May 2020

Love, deception and murder dominate as thriller writer James Silvester delivers the first in the Lucie Musilova series. Britain is a hotbed of racial tension and economic uncertainty. Only Sir Geoffrey Hartnell, an ageing but hugely respected MP, can...

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Arabesk 11th May 2020

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,...

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Gardens of Water 11th May 2020

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...

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The New Life 11th May 2020

‘I read a book one day, and my whole life was changed.’ So begins The New Life, Orhan Pamuk’s fabulous road novel about a young student who yearns for the life promised by a dangerously magical book. He falls...

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