Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408847206
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 608 g
Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
Vivien Rose Spencer joins her father's Turkish friend, Tahsin Bey, for an archaeological dig in Labraunda. Vivien Rose has been brought up hearing tales of Scylax, who was honoured by Darius with the gift of a... More
I originally was going with "a curate's egg" of a book, but seeing as the eponymous egg was "good in parts" and this book is well written all the way through, I decided this was unfair.... More
This well written novel captures very well the feel of place and time, on the surface being very mannered, whether England, Turkey or somewhere yet to become Pakistan. Ethnic tensions abound in the 1914-18 war, the... More
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