Blogs in January 2025

Under the Blue 22nd January 2025

A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his home and follow two young sisters across a post-pandemic Europe in search of a safe place. Is this the end...

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Murder in Constantinople 22nd August 2024

Graham Greene meets David Lean in Murder in Constantinople – a historical murder mystery in which a wayward boy from London’s East End is pulled into the hunt for a serial killer on the eve of the Crimean War...

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The Prince of Light 21st August 2024

Esin arrives in Istanbul to pursue her university education, only to find herself inexplicably drawn to a mysterious and charismatic stranger. Emir, returning to Istanbul after years away, is on a quest for an artifact that could alter the...

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Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell 16th July 2024

Travel around Turkey in the footsteps of the great British archaelogist Gertrude Bell. In 1889 Gertrude Bell, the great British archaeologist, writer and explorer, arrived in Constantinople (Istanbul) on the first of many visits to what is now Turkey....

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Midnight at the Pera Palace 16th July 2024

At midnight, December 31, 1925, citizens of the newly proclaimed Turkish Republic celebrated the New Year. For the first time ever, they had agreed to use a nationally unified calendar and clock.   Yet in Istanbul—an ancient crossroads and...

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