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  • The Golden Throne

    The Story of Suleyman the Magnificent

    'Wolf Hall for the Ottoman Empire . . . History at its most gripping' Daily Telegraph on The Lion House**A ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most consequential figures in world history, Suleyman the Magnificent, from the author of The Lion HouseChosen by The Times as one of the Best Books of 2025‘A wonderful book – entrancing, addictive, full of ... Read more

    Was $17.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The Islamic Enlightenment

    The Struggle Between Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times

    “The finest Orientalist of his generation” (Wall Street Journal) rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world.In this “stylishly written, surprisingly moving chronicle” (Harper’s), Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. “The ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

  • Patriot of Persia

    Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup

    A study of the life and leadership of the former Iranian prime minister and how Britain and the United States overthrew his government.On August 19, 1953, the American and British intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup in Iran against a cussed, bedridden seventy-two-year-old man. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, and his crimes had been to flirt with communism and to nationalize his ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs

    A Memoir of Iran

    A superb, authoritatively written insider’s account of Iran, one of the most mysterious but significant and powerful nations in the world.Few historians and journalists writing in English have been able to meaningfully examine post-revolutionary Iranian life. Years after his death, the shadow of Ayatollah Khomeini still looms over Shi'ite Islam and Iranian politics, the state of the nation fought ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Lion House

    The Coming of a King

    “Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds.” —Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureNarrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Lion House animates with stunning immediacy the fears and stratagems of those ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Revolution in Farming

    In a race to prepare for 2064, when the world’s population is expected to peak at 9.7 billion, farmers around the world have been incentivized to adopt intensive farming methods, which have degraded farmland, stripped trees, and contributed to the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In The Revolution in Farming, Christopher de Bellaigue travels across continents to explore conservation agriculture ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • Flying Green

    On the Frontiers of New Aviation

    Can flying be green?Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless—except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Rebel Land

    Unraveling the Riddle of History in a Turkish Town

    An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood.In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

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    The Lion House

    The Coming of a King

    Narrated by Barnaby Edwards ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 2 min

    "Christopher de Bellaigue has a magic talent for writing history. It is as if we are there as the era of Suleyman the Magnificent unfolds." —Orhan Pamuk, Winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureNarrated through the eyes of the intimates of Suleyman the Magnificent, the sixteenth-century sultan of the Ottoman Empire, The Lion House animates with stunning immediacy the fears and stratagems of those ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Golden Throne

    The Story of Suleyman the Magnificent

    Unabridged

    6 hours 23 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.A ground-breaking, present-tense reconstruction of the life and world of one of the most consequential figures in world history, Suleyman the Magnificent, from the author of The Lion HouseChosen by The Times, Guardian and Financial Times as a 'Book to Look Out For' in 2025Istanbul, 1538. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at the pinnacle of world power, while... ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Flying Green

    On the Frontiers of New Aviation

    Unabridged

    2 hours 48 min

    Can flying be green?Everyone loves to travel, and the industry’s room for growth seems almost limitless—except that flying will soon be responsible for 19 percent of global emissions. Some people have even decided never to fly. Over the coming decades, aviation will witness more innovation than at any time since the invention of the jet engine in the 1940s, transforming the way planes are powered ... Read more

    $16.50 CAD

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    The Rage of Party

    by George Owers ...
    Narrated by Justin Avoth ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 50 min

    THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025A CAPX AND ENGELSBERG IDEAS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025The late 17th century saw the rise of a new phenomenon that would transform Britain forever: party politics.Beginning with a furious dispute over whether to allow a Roman Catholic - James II - to become king, the division between Whig and Tory marked the chief political battlelines of a ferociously polarised ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD