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The second part of de Bellaigue's enthralling trilogy about Suleyman the Magnificent, following on from The Lion House which covered his rise. Here he is at his zenith, and considering his ... read more

The Golden Throne: The Curse of a King

Christopher de Bellaigue

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The Ottoman attempt to take Malta in 1565.

The Great Siege of Malta

Marcus Bull

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Pamuk has kept a diary for over a decade, noting down thoughts, experiences, events, dialogues with his characters - and all illustrated with his own drawings.

Memories of Distant Mountains: Illustrated Notebooks ...

Orhan Pamuk

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A rich collection of essays and images that offers valuable perspectives on the relations between the two superpowers.

Venice and the Ottoman Empire: A Tale of Art, Culture, and Exchange ...

Stefano Carboni

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The best place to eat in Mardin, Yeats and Ibn Battuta, the ancient wonders of Antakya, Gaziantep, Diyarbakir, Göbeklitepe and Karahan Tepe... Layers of empires, peoples, cultures in the la... read more

An Irishman in Northern Mesopotamia: A Journey of Discovery in South-E ...

Nicholas Mackey

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Catalogue of the exhibition in the National Gallery of Denmark.

Melchior Lorck: Facts, Fiction, Interpretation

Mikael Bogh Rasmussen

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An rich account of the diversity of Turkey and its culture; from pastries to prisons, communes to ice creams.

The Endless Country: A Personal Journey Through Turkey’s First H ...

Sami Kent

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An account of a pivotal moment in the Middle East, when thousands of Christians were massacred by Ottoman forces - a harbinger for upheavals to come.

The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Destruction of the Old ...

Eugene Rogan

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Carrots with walnuts and yoghurt, baked figs with feta, aubergines baked with halloumi and pul biber, courgette and dill borek...

Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes from My Turkish Kitchen

Ozlem Warren

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The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

Frances Stonor Saunders

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Lonely Planet Turkey

Lonely Planet

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The vast Byzantine walls are a powerful image for the conflict between history and the present that squeezes modern Turkey. Structured around encounters with people during his walks, this is... read more

To the City: Life and Death Along the Ancient Walls of Istanbul ...

Alexander Christie-Miller

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An Ottoman Traveller: Selections From The Book Of Travels Of Evliya ?e ...

Evliya ?elebi

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McCullin has travelled 5,000 miles in Turkey with the rambunctious and knowledgeable Rogerson as his cicerone. The result is this truly magnificent book of photographs, beautifully produced ... read more

Don McCullin: Journeys Across Roman Asia Minor

Barnaby Rogerson

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A sequence of essays about the Treaty that addressed the new Turkish state and the Middle East. At Versailles, before the rise of Ataturk, the West thought such matters had less claim on the... read more

They All Made Peace – What Is Peace?: The 1923 Treaty of Lausann ...

Jonathan Conlin

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This collection of Iznik work, from the Benaki Museum in Athens and collected by its founder, has never been fully published until now.

Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum

John Carswell

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The Lion House

Christopher de Bellaigue

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Cold Nights of Childhood

Tezer Ozlu

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From the author of the remarkable I Will Never See the World Again, a coming-of-age story set in present-day Istanbul.

Lady Life: A Novel

Ahmet Altan

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By boat from the source near Diyarbakir in Turkey, through Syria and Iraq to the river's mouth in the Persian Gulf.

Wounded Tigris: A River Journey Through the Cradle of Civilisation ...

Leon McCarron

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The final collapse of the empire that stretched from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, and the forging of modern Turkey.

The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, 1918-1922

Ryan Gingeras

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A ship sails to a fictitious Ottoman island in 1901, bearing three passengers: the daughter of the deposed sultan, her doctor husband, and the royal chemist. They are met with rumours of pl... read more

Nights of Plague

Orhan Pamuk

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An intelligent novel about the wounds of geography and history in modern Turkey: a centenarian artist begins to reveal her suppressed past and family secrets unspool.

At the Breakfast Table

Defne Suman

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The Silence of Scheherazade

Defne Suman

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Dinner of Herbs: Village Life in 1960s Turkey

Carla Grissman

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After looking at the bleak trajectory of Erdogan's regime, DB argues that Turkey's democratic instincts and economic ties to Europe will win in the end.

Turkey Under Erdogan: How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West ...

Dimitar Bechev

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A rich and sweeping history of the colourful Ottomans, from their rise to their downfall after WW1. It shows how they shifted from a policy of integration to one of exclusivity. Multiethnic,... read more

The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars and Caliphs

Marc David Baer

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New edition of these wonderful, open-eyed letters by the wife of the British ambassador to the Sublime Porte; fascinating glimpses of the world of Ottoman women, not least their practice of ... read more

The Turkish Embassy Letters: 1716-1718

Mary Wortley Montagu

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FSS is an excellent and varied writer. In this new book, she looks at her father's life through the papers in a suitcase revealing how he was exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey th... read more

The Suitcase: Six Attempts to Cross a Border

Frances Stonor Saunders

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The veteran commentator considers the 1960 coup that deposed Menderes, and traces the parallels that divide Erdogan's Turkey.

A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Di ...

Jeremy Seal

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Scholarly and readable account of Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who made the Ottoman Empire a major global player.

God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World ...

Alan Mikhail

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James Mellaart: The Journey to Catalhoeyuk

Alan C. Mellaart

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The Towers of Trebizond

Rose Macaulay

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Blood-Dark Track: A Family History

Joseph O'Neill

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A Colder War (Thomas Kell Spy Thriller, Book 2)

Charles Cumming

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Erdogan Rising: A Warning to Europe

Hannah Lucinda Smith

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