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Jason Goodwin (born 1964) is an English writer and historian. Biography. Jason Goodwin at HeadRead festival in Tallinn, 2011. Goodwin attended Sussex House School and Westminster School, before studying history at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Jason Goodwin is a novelist, historian and columnist; host, dragoman and hierophant. He has an Edgar™ awarded by the Mystery Writers of America, for his thriller The Janissary Tree ; his travel book On Foot to the Golden Horn won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; and his Ottoman-inspired cookbook Yashim Cooks Istanbul i s an NPR Notable Book ...
Jason Goodwin is the bestselling author of The Janissary Tree, The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, An Evil Eye and The Baklava Club, the last in his series of novels featuring Yashim, the Istanbul investigator.
Having always wanted to write fiction, he became popular as the author of the mystery series beginning with The Janissary Tree, which won the coveted Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2007. Translated into more than 40 languages, the series continues with The Snake Stone, The Bellini Card, An Evil Eye and The Baklava Club.
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May 16, 2006 · Jason Goodwin. 3.55. 6,371 ratings921 reviews. "Jason Goodwin has unleashed his talent on a series of mysteries set in nineteenth-century Istanbul and starring the unlikeliest and most engaging of detectives: Yashim the eunuch." The Janissary Tree is the first in the series, and the year is 1836.
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5 primary works • 8 total works. Yashim Togalu is an Ottoman investigator in Istanbul. The series is set in the early 19th century. Book 1. The Janissary Tree. by Jason Goodwin. 3.55 · 6,370 Ratings · 921 Reviews · published 2006 · 76 editions. "Jason Goodwin has unleashed his talent on a serie… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. The Snake Stone.
Jason Goodwin specialised in Byzantine history at Cambridge in the 1980s, walked there (On Foot to the Golden Horn) in 1993 and wrote this award-winning history of the Ottoman empire in 1998. His five excellent historical mysteries set in Istanbul in the 1830s star the gourmet eunuch detective Yashim; The Janissary Tree and The Snake Stone were ...
