Hinterlands - the bibliography
An extended reading list
Hinterlands was published last week in the UK, marked with a launch party thrown by my lovely publishers, Profile, at Daunt Books in Cheapside. It was a really special evening celebrating with lots of people that I love, and a great way to send the book out into the world. You can now buy your copy at any UK bookstore, and please do!
For reasons of space, the book doesn’t include the bibliography, so instead I’m publishing the full list here in case anyone is inspired to read further into the places and subjects I covered.
These are the books on my shelves and in my Kindle that entertained and informed me as I wrote this book. Some I read in their entirety, others I dipped into:
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West
Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
The Room Where It Happened, John Bolton
The colour trilogy by Caroline Eden:
Black Sea
Red Sands
Green mountains
Following Miss Bell: Travels Around Turkey in the Footsteps of Gertrude Bell, Pat Yale
Days of the Consuls, Ivo Andrić
Cyprus, Christopher Hitchens
Every Day is Extra, John Kerry
The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
Narcissism and Politics, Jerrold Post
Suriye, Ömer Önhon
Suriye, Çöküşün Oynusu, Mustafa K. Erdemol
A Dirty War, Anna Politkovskaya
From Russia With Blood, Heidi Blake
The Illegals, Shaun Walker
To The City, Alex Christie-Miller
How to be a Dictator, Frank Dikötter
The Illicit Economy in Turkey: How Criminals, Terrorists, and the Syrian Conflict Fuel Underground Markets, Mahmut Cengiz and Mitchel P. Roth
How to Lose a Country, Ece Temelkuran
Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt
Türkiye ve Ötesinde Müslümanlık, Nesilhan Çevik
Rival Power: Russia’s Influence in Southeast Europe, Dimitar Bechev
Religion, Identity and Power, Ahmet Erdi Öztürk
Angel of Grozny: Inside Chechnya, Åsne Seierstad
Mother Russia, Maurice Hindus
Putin’s People, Catherine Belton
The Hotel Tito: a novel, Ivana Bodrožić
My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Anthony Loyd
Turkish Wine: Past, Present and Future of Viniculture in Türkiye, Mehtap Emmie Turan
Archaeology under Dictatorship. Michael L. Galaty and Charles Watkinson, eds
With Their Backs to the World, Åsne Seierstad
This Is Not Propaganda, Peter Pomerantsev
Son Ada, Zülfü Livaneli
Turkey Before and After Ataturk, Sylvia Kedaurie
Leaders and their Followers in a Dangerous World, Jerrold Post
Erdoğanophobia, Abdülkadir Özkan
A Recipe for Daphne, Nektaria Anastasiadou
Toprak ve Şarap: Türkiye’nin Bağları ve Şarapları, Cingöz Atış ve Doğuhan Atış
Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan
The Fugitive of Gezi Park, Deniz Goran
Beneath the Carob Trees: the lost lives of Cyprus, Nick Danzinger and Rory Maclean
Careless People: a story of where I used to work, Sarah Wynn-Williams
Transformed by the People: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham’s Road to Power in Syria, Patrick Haenni and Jerome Drevon
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime, Misha Glenny
How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive, Marcel Dirsus
The Endless Country, Sami Kent
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Lea Ypi
Damascus Station, David McCloskey
Inside Qatar, John McManus
MBS: The rise to power of Mohammed bin Salman, Ben Hubbard
I also drew on the journalism, research and archives of the following organisations:
Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Network
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
The Times and The Sunday Times historical archives
Europol
The Council of Europe
Human Rights Watch
Amnesty International
Center for Human Rights in Iran
I obtained documents relating to Asil Nadir’s imprisonment and subsequent release to Turkey through Freedom of Information requests in the UK.
Congrats for your new book !! Also thanks for the bibliography :))