Delightfully quirky […] tinged throughout with more than a faint sense of the absurd. Every twist and turn of the six-month voyage by land and see there (and back) is described […]but the best moments come with the colourful descriptions of Constantinople and the often surprising behaviour of the Ottoman court.
Gathorne-Hardy enriches his book with much cultural background
The author’s research has been thorough, but his learning is as lightly worn as his eye for detail or a telling anecdote is keen. He writes with an easy and agreeable elegance; in short, his book is a delight. A lesser writer would have made it two or three times as long.
ALLAN MASSIE, THE SCOTSMAN
About his late book "The Sultan's Organ"
BOOKS
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy is the author of 27 books - 16 for adults, 11 for children:
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FICTION
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One Foot In The Clouds
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Chamaleon
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The Office
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The Centre Of The Universe Is 18 Baedekerstrasse
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The City Beneath the Skin
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Particle Theory - A Novel
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The Voice of God And Other Disasters
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(As Silvia Thornton)
The Man From The Sea
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NON-FICTION
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The Rise And Fall Of The British Nanny
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The Public School Phenomenon
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Love, Sex, Marriage And Divorce
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Doctors
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The Interior Castle - A Life Of Gerald Brenan
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Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex The Measure Of All Things - A Biography
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Half An Arch
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The Sultan's Organ
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FOR CHILDREN
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Jane's Adventures In And Out Of The Book
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Jane's Adventures On The Island Of Peeg
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Jane's Adventures In A Baloon
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The Terrible Kidnapping Of Cyril Bonhamy
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Cyril Bonhamy v Madam Big
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Cyril Bonhamy And The Great Drain Robbery
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Cyril Bonhamy And Operation Ping
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Cyril Of The Apes
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The Munros' New House
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The Tunnel Party
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The Twin Detectives
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