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An Evil Eye by Jason Goodwin.
$30.00 AUD
Category: Crime
When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, ...Show more
An Evil Eye by Jason Goodwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet. Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan's service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and - in Yashim's eyes - ultimately ineffective, ...Show more
Lords of the Horizons - A History of the Ottoman Empire by Jason Goodwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds and hearts. Over six hundred years the Empire swelled and declined; the royal line bent, but never broke, from Osman, born in a desert tent around 1280 to Abdul Mecid, dying in a Paris flat in 1942. Its precipitous rise from a dusty fie ...Show more
The Bellini Card by Jason Goodwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime
Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, Yashim the detective enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 is a city of empty palazzos and silent canals, and Palewski starts to mingle with Venetian dealers - but when two bodies tu ...Show more
The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Jason Goodwin, inspired by his grandmothers who spent their lives in China and India observing the customs of afternoon tea, set off to explore the relics of this imperial age and its worldwide trade, delving into the extraordinary history of tea. Brilliantly evoking a vanished world, he follows the ...Show more
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: 'Yashim the Eunuch' Mystery
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 crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, the eunuch Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the tradition ...Show more
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: 'Yashim the Eunuch' Mystery
It is Istanbul, 1838, and Lefevre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is hired to investigate him, but when the man turns up dead, there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, the investigator finds himself in a race against ...Show more
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