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Jason Goodwin

This page lists novels and non-fiction by Jason Goodwin.

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By Jason Goodwin:
- novels
- non-fiction

 

Jason Goodwin: Novels

The Janissary Tree

Jason Goodwin

Faber & Faber

2006

A Yashim the investigator novel.

"Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the 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, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire."
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The Snake Stone

Jason Goodwin

Faber & Faber

2007

A Yashim the investigator novel.

"Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death."
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The Bellini Card

Jason Goodwin

Faber & Faber

2008

A Yashim the investigator novel.

"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 turn up in the canal, he realises that art in Venice is a deadly business, and it is up to Yashim to attempt to rescue his intrepid friend from forces bigger than they had ever imagined."
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An Evil Eye

Jason Goodwin

Faber & Faber

2011

A Yashim the investigator novel.

"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, he is the only man who makes him afraid. And now Yashim must confront the secret that Fevzi Pasha has been keeping all these years, a secret whose roots lie deep in the tortured atmosphere of the sultan's harem, where normal rules are suspended, and women can simply disappear. Once again, Yashim and his friends encounter treachery and politics, played out against the backdrop of 1840s Istanbul."
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The Baklava Club

Jason Goodwin

Faber & Faber

2014

A Yashim the investigator novel.

"In nineteenth-century Istanbul, a Polish prince has been kidnapped. His assassination has been bungled and his captors have taken him to an unused farmhouse. Little do they realize that their revolutionary cell has been penetrated by their enemies, who use the code name La Piuma (the Feather). Yashim is convinced that the prince is alive. But he has no idea where, or who La Piuma is - and has become dangerously distracted by falling in love. As he draws closer to the prince's whereabouts and to the true identity of La Piuma, Yashim finds himself in the most treacherous situation of his career: can he rescue the prince along with his romantic dreams?"
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Jason Goodwin: Non-fiction

The Gunpowder Gardens: Travels Through India And China In Search Of Tea

Jason Goodwin

Chatto & Windus

1991

Published in the US by Knopf as A Time For Tea: Travels Through India And China In Search Of Tea.

"Jason Goodwin evokes past and present with a lively sense of the ironies of history, following the tea trade from its origins in the Canton 'factories' through the Opium Wars and the settlement of British India, when planters were also empire builders, to its influence on the present day.Full of brilliantly observed detail, both historical and personal, The Gunpowder Gardens is informative, moving and funny."
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On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul

Jason Goodwin

Chatto & Windus

1993

"On Foot to the Golden Horn recounts Jason Goodwin's breathtaking journey through Eastern Europefrom the dikes and marshes of Poland's Baltic coast across to the Golden Horn in Istanbul. It is the story of his walk with two friends-one now his wife-through some of the world's most beautiful, and tragic, places and of their encounters with a varied and vivid cast of characters."
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire

Jason Goodwin

Chatto & Windus

1998

"For six hundred years, the Ottoman Empire swelled and declined. Islamic, martial, civilized, and tolerant, it advanced in three centuries from the dusty foothills of Anatolia to rule on the Danube and the Nile; at its height, Indian rajahs and the kings of France beseeched the empire's aid. In its last three hundred years the empire seemed ready to collapse, a prodigy of survival and decay. In this striking evocation of the empire's power, Jason Goodwin explores how the Ottomans rose and how, against all odds, they lingered on. In doing so, he also offers a long look back to the origins of problems that plague present-day Kosovars and Serbs."
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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America

Jason Goodwin

Hamish Hamilton

2003

"Money has always been at the heart of the American experience. Paper money, invented in Boston in 1698, was a classic of American ingenuity - and American disregard for authority and tradition. With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin's biography of the dollar gives us the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history."
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Yashim Cooks Istanbul: Culinary Adventures in the Ottoman Kitchen

Jason Goodwin

Argonaut Books

2016

"Yashim Cooks Istanbul covers the full spectrum of Turkish cookery, from simple meze and vegetable dishes to meat, fish and puddings. Good in the kitchen, good on the table, it will draw the reader into the extraordinary atmosphere of old Istanbul. Imagine you could step back into Yashim s world. Imagine that the flavours and colours of old Istanbul could come to life. Yashim Cooks Istanbul is about time travel and you don t have to leave your kitchen to make the trip!"
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A Pilgrim's Guide to Sacred London

John Mitchell & Jason Goodwin

Argonaut Books / Poisoned Pen Press

2017

"Beneath the carapace of busy London lie relics of an old enchantment, when Guildhall was the palace of Trojan kings and Westminster Abbey was the holy of holies, secluded on Thorney Island. Follow the itineraries or dip into pages at will, and Sacred London will let you see the capital in a new light. Bathed in the gleam of saints and angels, discover a city of river worship, ancient stones, and holy wells. Visit places of sanctuary and haunts of peace, picked out from the scrum of the modern city, quiet churches and forgotten wildernesses, in the very heart of London."
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Last updated August 2018