Book description
Elizabeth Stavely sits in the Bodleian Library, her hands trembling
as she holds a fragment of parchment, the key to a story untold for
four hundred years …
Constantinople 1599: the English merchant Paul Pindar must deliver
an extraordinary gift to the Sultan. Grieving for his lost love,
drowned in a shipwreck, he hears rumours of a new golden-haired slave
in the Sultan's harem. Could this be his Celia?
Katie Hickman is the author of five previous books, including
two bestselling history books, Courtesans and Daughters of
Britannia. She has written two travel books: Travels with a
Circus, which was shortlisted for the 1993 Thomas Cook Travel Book
Award, and Dreams of the Peaceful Dragon. She is the author of
one previous novel, The Quetzal Summer, for which she was
listed for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year award.
Katie Hickman lives in London with her two children and her husband,
the philosopher A. C.Grayling.
