Results for: books tagged ‘Istanbul’
Istanbul: Orhan Pamuk
Turkey’s greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of Istanbul – the city of his birth and the home ... More
The Black Book: Orhan Pamuk
The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric ... More
Constantinople: Roger Crowley
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium.During the siege that followed, a ... More
The Janissary Tree: Jason Goodwin
A fabulously rich and entertaining novel of detection and conspiracy in nineteenth-century Istanbul. Translated into thirty-one languages worldwide. One bloody night in 1836: a young concubine is strangled in the ... More
Other Colours: Orhan Pamuk
From Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of the best from twenty-five years’ work. His original pieces have been sympathetically revisited by ... More
My Name is Red: Orhan Pamuk
A modern classic. Orhan Pamuk's historical whodunnit, set in the court of a 16th-century Sultan. Complete and unabridged. More
The Bellini Card: Jason Goodwin
The suspense moves to the decaying grandeur of Venice in this, the third of the Yashim the Ottoman Detective thrillers. More
The Snake Stone: Jason Goodwin
The return of Yashim, the eunuch investigator from the international bestseller and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel The Janissary Tree. More
The Museum of Innocence: Orhan Pamuk
‘It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.’ And so begins the new novel from the universally acclaimed author of Snow and My Name is Red, his first since winning the Nobel Prize. More
Bicycle Diaries: David Byrne
Since the early 1980s, David Byrne has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes, and starting ... More