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Istanbul murder mystery "Tears of Pearl" by Tasha Alexander

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Review of "The bird king" by American Muslim writer G. Willow Wilson - A mix of history, mythology and fantasy,

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Historic novel with folklore elements "The sultan, the vampyr and the soothsayer"

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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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"Scandalous Lady" - a romance novel set in historic Istanbul with a good story that managed to get the location right

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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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Review "Tangier" - the story of a Christian-Muslim-Jewish extended family in Tangier in the period just before colonisation of Morocco by France

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Moroccan 17th century history comes to life in a novel about the love of a eunuch for the wife of the sultan

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