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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the invention of America by Jason Goodwin
29.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
The dollar: symbol of might and success; the oil that runs the world's finances; the stuff that the American dream is really made of. The story of the American dollar is the story of America itself, and in Greenback, Jason Goodwin tells the fascinating tale of how the country made the dollar and how ...Show more
On Foot to the Golden Horn by Jason Goodwin
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Jason Goodwin's account of his breathtaking journey on foot through Eastern Europe is a masterful traveller's tale and a thoroughly gripping read. From the dykes and marshes of Poland's Baltic coast, across the mountains of Transylvania in post Ceausescu Romania, to the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Good ...Show more
The Baklava Club by Jason Goodwin
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Bellini Card (#3) by Jason Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Yashim the Eunuch Ser.
The third book in Jason Goodwin's celebrated series takes Yashim from the winding alleyways of Istanbul to the decaying grandeur of Venice. Charged by the Sultan to find a stolen painting by Bellini, he enlists the help of his friend Palewski, the Polish Ambassador, and goes undercover. Venice in 1840 i ...Show more
The Gunpowder Gardens by Jason Goodwin
24.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Jason Goodwin, inspired by his grandmothers who spent their lives in China and India observing the customs of afternoon tea, set off to explore the relics of this imperial age and its worldwide trade, delving into the extraordinary history of tea. Brilliantly evoking a vanished world, he follows the ...Show more
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
35.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
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 empir ...Show more
The Snake Stone by Jason Goodwin
37.99 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Lefevre, 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 Lefevre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once agai ...Show more
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