Caught between two seas and two continents, with a contested past and an imperiled future, Istanbul represents the precipitous moment civilizations around...
Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran...
A concubine is strangled in the Sultan's palace harem, and a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's tumultuous...
The terrified citizens of Constantinople are plagued by mysterious sorcery. A boy had traded the lives of his family for power. A Christian scholar must...
The terrified citizens of Constantinople are plagued by mysterious sorcery. A boy has traded the lives of his family for power. A Christian scholar must...
When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway, with the gift of a white elephabt for the Sultan, little does he anticipate the journey on...
The bloodthirsty Emperor Phocas is preparing for the greatest battle of his life. Enemy armies are racing closer to attack his fortress, the golden city...
Istanbul, 1921. Each day Nur gazes across the waters of the Bosphorus to her childhood home, a grand white house, nestled on the opposite bank. Memories...
This is a magical historical novel about an astonishing eight year old girl in the last days of the Ottoman Empire. It is 1877, on the shores of the Black...
Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodlean library with trembling hands. Before her is a fragment of parchment which provides the clue she has been looking...