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Jason Goodwin

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Jason Goodwin's latest book is YASHIM COOKS ISTANBUL: Culinary Adventures in the Ottoman Kitchen.
He studied Byzantine history at Cambridge University - and returned to an old obsession to write The Gunpowder Gardens or, A Time For Tea: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, which was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Award. When the Berlin Wall fell, he walked from Poland to Istanbul to encounter the new European neighbours. His account of the journey, On Foot to the Golden Horn, won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize in 1993.

Fascinated by what he had learned of Istanbul's perpetual influence in the region, he wrote Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, a New York Times Notable Book. 'If you want to learn,' h
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Jason Goodwin Dear Kerry - you are too kind, and brighten up a chill january morning! Oddly, I only logged into Goodreads for the first time in months this morning …moreDear Kerry - you are too kind, and brighten up a chill january morning! Oddly, I only logged into Goodreads for the first time in months this morning - how did you know? Anyway, so glad you enjoyed the Baklava Club. I was very happy with Czartoryski's swim, and I enjoyed writing the hapless terrorists. I suppose the lesson, as ever, is that mad idealism is never wise. Good luck and thank you.
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“They were always Albanians. You know what that means. Some Catholics, some Orthodox. And some, in time, were Muslims, too. But the first religion of the Albanian, as they say, is Albania.”
Jason Goodwin, The Snake Stone

“When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.”
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“The men who had been sent to terrify Europe made a simple discovery: it was easier—and far less dangerous—to terrorize at home.”
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“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.”
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“Tea and water give each other life,' the Professor was saying. 'The tea is still alive. This tea has tea and water vitality.”
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“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
Lao Tzu

45431 Q & A with Jason Goodwin — 12 members — last activity Mar 29, 2011 04:24PM
To mark the US release of his fourth Yashim mystery, An Evil Eye, the 2007 Edgar Award winning crime writer Jason Goodwin will be answering readers' q ...more
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So you struggled with War and Peace as a teenager - then it exploded into your mind when you read it again, at last, years later! Not all books are fo ...more
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As a writer of historical fiction - in fact, historical mysteries - I'm curious about how far readers feel one can push the facts. Kate Mosse, an old ...more
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We are creating a library of songs inspired by all sorts of books, new and old, mostly fiction and some non fiction. They are not adaptations, or revi ...more



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