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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 18 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Dragonfly Sea by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
    The Dragonfly Sea - by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914613081 | ISBN 10: 1914613082

    A magical novel of love, exploration and home, spanning the East African coast, China, Turkey and the seas in between, from one of Kenya’s leading writers.  ‘The Dragonfly Sea transported me at a time I really wanted to be transported. Ly ... more

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  • Cover image of book Farewell Fountain Street by Selcuk Altun
    Farewell Fountain Street - by Selcuk Altun

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781846592164 | ISBN 10: 184659216x

    Translated by Nilgün Dungan and Mel Kenne  Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business affairs and say goodbye to the people he cherish ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - by Elif Shafak

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241979464 | ISBN 10: 0241979463

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019  'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair  'Incredibly sens ... more

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  • Cover image of book 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
    10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - by Elif Shafak

    £14.99   hardback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780241293867 | ISBN 10: 0241293863

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019   'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore...'   For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuo ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk
    The Red-Haired Woman - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780571330317 | ISBN 10: 0571330312

    From the Nobel Prize winner and best-selling author of Snow and My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers and sons and the desires that come between them.   On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
    Three Daughters of Eve - by Elif Shafak

    £7.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780241978887 | ISBN 10: 0241978882

    On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party - a night of luxury a far cry from her upbringing. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Istanbul, Istanbul by Burhan Sönmez
    Istanbul, Istanbul - by Burhan Sönmez

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781846592058 | ISBN 10: 1846592054

    Istanbul is a city of a million cells, and every cell is an Istanbul unto itself.  Below the ancient streets of Istanbul, four prisoners – Demirtay the student, the doctor, Kamo the barber and Uncle Küheylan – sit, awaiting their turn at ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
    A Strangeness in My Mind - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780571275991 | ISBN 10: 0571275990

    At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his cousin, she agrees to elope with him, and on a dark night the two come together for the first time. As they rush to catc ... more

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  • Cover image of book Reckless by Hasan Ali Toptas, translated by Maureen Freely and John Angliss
    Reckless - by Hasan Ali Toptas, translated by Maureen Freely and John Angliss

    £8.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408850909 | ISBN 10: 1408850907

    Thirty years after completing his military service Ziya flees the spiralling turmoil of one of Turkey's great sprawling cities to seek a serene existence in a village of which he has long heard dreamlike tales. Having endured two years of gruelling m ... more

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  • Cover image of book Honour by Elif Shafak
    Honour - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241972946 | ISBN 10: 0241972949

    From the Orange Prize long-listed and award-winning author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Bastard of Istanbul Elif Shafak, Honour is a novel of love, betrayal and a clash of cultures.   'My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Architect
    The Architect's Apprentice - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241970942 | ISBN 10: 0241970946

    When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark.   As he settles into life in Istanbul, Jahan's fortunes are shaped ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
    The Flea Palace - by Elif Shafak

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780241201909 | ISBN 10: 024120190x

    Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery.   By tur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Black Sky, Black Sea by Izzet Celasin
    Black Sky, Black Sea - by Izzet Celasin

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781906694838 | ISBN 10: 1906694834

    1977. Poised between the secular values of socialism and the conservatism of a tenuously balanced government, Istanbul is a fractured city haunted by demons of its own making.   Along with thousands of other left-wing activists, Oak’s interest ... more

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  • Cover image of book Silent House by Orhan Pamuk
    Silent House - by Orhan Pamuk

    £8.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780571275953 | ISBN 10: 0571275958

    In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades, ever since her husband, an idealistic young doctor, first arri ... more

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  • Cover image of book Hotel Bosphorus by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse
    Hotel Bosphorus - by Esmahan Aykol, translated by Ruth Whitehouse

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781904738688 | ISBN 10: 1904738680

    Kati Hirschel, in her thirties, is the proud owner of Istanbul’s only crime bookshop. When the German director of a film starring an old school friend is found murdered in his hotel room Kati cannot resist the temptation to start her own maverick inv ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
    The Museum of Innocence - by Orhan Pamuk

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571237029 | ISBN 10: 0571237029

    ‘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.  It is a perfect Spring in 1975, Istanbul. ... more

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  • Cover image of book My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
    My Name is Red - by Orhan Pamuk

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780571268832 | ISBN 10: 0571268838

    In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day - in the European manner.  But when one of the miniaturists is murdered, their ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Young Turk by Moris Farhi
    Young Turk - by Moris Farhi

    £9.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781846590283 | ISBN 10: 1846590280

    Against the backdrop of Nazism, in a multi-racial Trukey giving sancturay to many of Europe's fleeing Jews, a group of teenage friends struggles to understand events while reeling from (and relishing) the sexual and emotional discoveries of adolescen ... more

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