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Review: The Most Bold and Daring Act of the Age: A Henry Doyle Novel - an old fashioned adventure story set in bygone days

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Turkish history disguised as a novel: The Mapmaker's Daughter by Katherine Nouri Hughes (Iraqi American author)

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A great old adventure novel that got digitalised "Barbary slave" by Gardner Francis Fox

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Istanbul murder mystery "Tears of Pearl" by Tasha Alexander

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No romance but the story of a rebellion - review of "FATE: Story of a Circassian Slave Girl" by Ahmet Ozgunes

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"The Stolen girl" and "the French sultana" both explore the legend of Naksidil the French woman in the Turkish imperial harem

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Three novels following a workingclass family living in or near Cordoba in the haydays of the Caliphate when Spain was an Umayad Muslim Kingdom

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Morocco 16th century: Young Berber woman becomes pirate queen -based on historic facts

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"The Sultan’s Wife" - not a soppy romance story but a novel about an interesting time in Moroccan history

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