Jason Goodwin, Author . Ivan R. Dee $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56663-385-7
The skyscraper, that most durable symbol of modernity, would not have been possible without the elevator, and the elevator as we have come to know it is largely the product of the company that Elisha Otis founded in the 1850s. The history of that...
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Jason Goodwin, Author . Holt/Macrae $27.50 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6407-0
After a strong start, this history of American money loses its thread and ends up as an entertaining collection of trivia, personality profiles and vignettes rather than the compelling narrative promised in its opening. Still, Goodwin's flair...
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Jason Goodwin, Author . Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (302p) ISBN 978-0-374-17860-4
Goodwin, the author of a well-received history of the Ottoman Empire, Lords of the Horizons
(1999), makes a welcome shift to fiction with this impressive first of a new mystery series set in the empire's declining decades. In 1836, though the...
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Jason Goodwin, Author . Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (290p) ISBN 978-0-374-29935-4
Early 19th-century Istanbul's teeming mix of nationalities, religions and cultures comes alive in this vibrant sequel to the Edgar-winning The Janissary Tree
(2006). When French archeologist Maximilien Lefèvre begins asking very pointed,
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Jason Goodwin, Author . Farrar, Straus & Giroux $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-374-11039-0
Near the start of Edgar-winner Goodwin's fine third historical to feature the eunuch Yashim, who serves the Ottoman rulers of early 19th-century Turkey (after 2008's The Snake Stone
), Yashim's close friend Stanislaw Palewski, the...
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Jason Goodwin, Author Henry Holt & Company $32.5 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4081-4
In this elegant work, British author Goodwin (On Foot to the Golden Horn) combines deft historical summary with the buoyant prose and idiosyncratic focus of the best travel writing. The combination enables him to take the full measure of a realm...
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Jason Goodwin, FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-11040-6
Edgar-winner Goodwin's masterful fourth mystery thriller set in Istanbul under the Ottoman Turks (after The Bellini Card) finds his series hero, the eunuch Yashim, attempting to navigate treacherous political shoals following the death of Sultan...
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Jason Goodwin. FSG/Sarah Crichton, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-37429-437-3
Edgar-winner Goodwin’s absorbing fifth and final novel set in the waning days of Ottoman Turkey (after 2011’s An Evil Eye) finds the eunuch Yashim far from pleased when the sultan’s mother appoints him as tour guide to the visiting Natasha Borisova,
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Jason Goodwin, Author, Judith B. Jones, Editor Knopf Publishing Group $22 (287p) ISBN 978-0-394-57941-2
Armchair travelers and tea connoisseurs will welcome English writer Goodwin's lively treatise cum travel book on the cultivation and trade of tea. Starting in southern China, where cha originated as the drink of emperors, he follows the trail to...
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