Why a Booktrail?
An interesting way to travel and experience sides to the city you may not have seen. Articles and small collections of written accounts of a city undergoing change.
City Pick Istanbul (City Pick Series)
What you need to know before your trail
Writers of different and various persuasions reveal what makes Istanbul one of the world’s most extraordinary cities. They each provide a chapter or a snippet into what makes Istanbul amazing and memorable for them.
Travel writers, local writers, novelists who have used Istanbul as a setting backdrop or even character in their novels are brought together in a tempting mix – to get the real flavour, spice and bite of a city across to the City pick reader
Travel Guide
The book is a veritable Turkish smörgåsbord of writing of all flavours for all tastes presented in various courses for your delectation. Various writers or should I say ‘word chefs’ cook up a feast for all your senses –
What is it about Istanbul?
Traveller’s tales
The glorious past
The city in all its moods
Meet your guides of Istanbul -Orhan Pamuk who makes his own museum, Elif Shafak experience of shopping in the Grand Bazaar, Ride the Bosphorus ferries with William Dalrymple, and see why Geert Mak enjoys the Galata Bridge. Plus many many more.
Journey with the writers back in time with a visit to the Basilica Cistern, plus the various people crossing Galata bridge in different ages.
“To me, Istanbul is the most fascinating , most ravishing city on earth, a feeling that hasn’t wavered since I first ate a peach on the Galata Bridge twenty years ago.”
And you might even bump into Barbara Nadel’s creation detective Çetin Ikmen –
“Everything in Istanbul has a fake something or other. Inspector Çetin Ikmen himself had been given a counterfeit Rolex watch by his youngest son for his last, his fifty-seventh, birthday. The child Kemal, has purchased it from one of the many scruffy-looking vendors of such things who plied their trade underneath the Galata Bridge”
Where Next?
