Author: HICKMAN, KATIE
Title: The Aviary Gate
Description: London, Bloomsbury. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780747580386). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. x + 340 pages. Page marker bound in. Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library with trembling hands. Before her is a precious fragment of parchment which has a dusty fragrance of roses, of sadness and great age. Here is the clue she has been looking for: the key to a story untold for 400 years. Constantinople, 1599: merchants from all over the world are vying with each other to gain trading rights in the Ottoman Empire. The book is a multi-layered tale of ancient alliances and intrigues, of forbidden love and dangerous secrets, vividly depicted, and filled with the colours, sights and scents of 16th century Constantinople. Fine/Fine.

Keywords: Historical Fiction, 16th Century Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, Musical Clock, Eunuch 9780747580386


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