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Turkey is one of the world's most popular tourist destinations and yet the rugged plateaus stretching east from Istanbul are rarely explored. Unique in offering in-depth coverage of this region,...

This guide includes an encyclopaedic and historical section about Istanbul and 232 itineraries. A practical section listing addresses and telephone numbers, opening times of museums and details on hotels, bars,...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024 'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland 'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books 'A fine...

A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...

ISTANBUL: A TRAVELLER'S READER is an wide-ranging and carefully chosen selection of writings, offering a richly layered view of Byzantine Constantinople and Turkish Istanbul. During the thousand-year Byzantine empire that...

Greg and Lucy Malouf's classic cookbook Turquoise is now available as a new edition. In Turquoise Greg and Lucy Malouf delight us by bringing their own inimitable blend of food...

An award-winning scholar's account of an ancient city's descent into unprecedented communal violence--an event that would mark the end of the old Ottoman order and the beginning of the modern...

Ambler's electrifying Istanbul-set thriller from 1962, and the basis for the classic film Topkapi Arthur Abdel Simpson is a failed journalist and soon-to-be failed thief, embittered by memories of his...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent revolutionary uprisings against the...

Award-winning investigative journalist Chris Rogers, smuggled himself into state-run orphanages in Romania and found proof that the appalling treatment of abandoned children continues, long after the fall of communism and...

Fully revised and updated with dedicated trekking chapter by local trekking specialist. Comprehensive and informative culture, history and environment chapters written by experts.

'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire ... History at its most gripping' Telegraph Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear- the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has...

85 recipes for transforming sweet and savoury doughs into delicious main meals and desserts. In her first cookbook, social media star and baker Bet l Tun of Turkuaz Kitchen shows...

New cookbook from instant Sunday Times bestselling author- quick & easy recipes full of Turkish-Cypriot flavour. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER \"This book is the ally you need as you...

An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the...

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Fascinatingly imaginative popular history.' Sydney Morning Herald On 25 April 1915, Allied forces landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula in present-day Turkey to secure the sea route between...

VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired...

Istanbul Cult Recipes invites you to explore an ancient and captivating city through its cuisine - a vast gastronomic culture spanning centuries and influences, from Europe, the Middle East, Central...

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,...

The Gallipoli campaign was launched in April 1915 in an effort to knock Turkey out of the war but the force that was deployed was too small to achieve its...

Byzantium. Was it Greek or Roman, familiar or hybrid, barbaric or civilised, Oriental or Western? In the late eleventh century Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Christendom, the...

A detailed portrait of the Turkic people explores events since World War I that have rendered the nation a vital NATO ally and the site of a secular Islamic democracy,...

'An important and radical new literary voice' Elif BatumanIt's 2017 and Leyla, a leftwing Turkish twenty-something living in Berlin, is scrubbing toilets at an Alice in Wonderland-themed hostel in order...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS 2024'As epic as it is engaging' Tom Holland'Jaunty, highly informative and ultimately sobering' New York Review of Books'A fine book... Leon McCarron's...

"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The...

MARCO POLO Turkey: the Travel Guide with Insider Tips. Fully revised and updated. Now with new Discovery Tours chapter. With this up-to-date, authoritative guide you can experience all the sights...

Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the...

'An enthralling guide to one of the world's great cities - that blends history and insights into the present day from one of the most astute commentators on the politics...

Author: Cenk OEzbayFormat: Hardback, 138mm x 216mm, 384g, 208 pagesPublished: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2017Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many...