Joseph O'Neill LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION The first novel from Joseph O’Neill since NETHERLAND. ‘O’Neill, in this...

Donna RosenthalIsrael is smaller than New Jersey, with 0.11% of the world's population, yet captures a lion's share of headlines. It looks like one country on CNN, a very different...

Richard Grenier It all begins as Burt Nelson, struggling with the mysteries of the Arab mind, tries to complete a film version of the life of Mohammed. But things keep...

Sean McMeekin The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the...

Paul Doherty A new novel of murder in the reign of Pharoah Hatusu featuring Judge Amerotke as the crime-solver. At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes,...

Orhan Pamuk On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger and his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. The...

Lee Smith In this provocative and timely book, Middle East expert Lee Smith overturns long-held Western myths and assumptions about the Arab world, offering advice for America’s future success in...

Carlotta Gal A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides “an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan” ( Financial Times ).Few reporters know as much...

Erik J Zurcher This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization of state and society. It begins...

Ece Temelkuran An urgent and unsettling account of Turkey’s descent into tyranny, as seen through the eyes of one of the country’s most gifted writers.Starting with the basic question "what is this...

Theo Farrell Chosen as a Book of the Year by the Sunday Times and the Evening Standard'Authoritative and provocative… For its range and breadth, it is a tour de force and a must...

Bernard Lewis For many centuries, Islam was the world's greatest, most open, most enlightened, most creative, most powerful civilisation. And then everything changed, as the previously despised West won victory...