by Katie Hickman · Bloomsbury Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780747596448
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«The Aviary Gate» is the historical novel by Katie Hickman, published by Bloomsbury Paperbacks in paperback (448 pages, in English).
Constantinople, 1599: the sultan's chief harem eunuch is found poisoned and a veiled figure flees. Four centuries later, Elizabeth Stavely finds in the Bodleian Library a parchment that holds the key to that story. The English merchant Paul Pindar, mourning his beloved Celia, believes he recognises her among the harem slaves.
The «The Aviary Gate» series begins with this novel, whose edition was published on 2 February 2009.
For readers of historical fiction who want palace intrigue, forbidden romance and a detailed setting of the sixteenth-century Ottoman harem.
Katie Hickman is an English novelist, historian and travel writer. She was born in Wellington, New Zealand to the diplomat and author John Kyrle Hickman and Jennifer Olive (Love) Hickman. She is the author of ten books, including two best-selling history books, which between them have sold more than a quarter of a million copies worldwide. Her travel book A Trip to the Light Fantastic was one of The Independent's Books of the Year (1993) and was short-listed for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (1994). Her fiction works have earned a nomination for the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award and her trilogy of historical novels The Aviary Gate (2008), The Pindar Diamond (2011) and The House at Bishopsgate (2016) have been translated into 20 languages. She is featured in the Oxford University Press guide to women travellers, Wayward Women.
