Jason Goodwin fell under the spell of Istanbul while studying Byzantine history at Cambridge University. Following the success of A Time For Tea: Travels in China and India in Search of Tea, he made a six-month pilgrimage across eastern Europe to reach the city for the first time, a journey recounted in his award-winning On Foot to the Golden Horn. (It won the John Llewellyn Rhys/Mail on Sunday Prize 1993.) Intrigued by the enduring influence of the Ottoman turks on eastern Europe, Jason went on to research and write Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire. Jan Morris called it ‘a high-octane work of art,’ and the New York Times praised its ‘dazzling beauty…The rare coming together of historical scholarship and curiosity about distant places with luminous writing.’ He is currently at work on the next Yashim story, The Bellini Card; as well as a shorter history of the Ottoman Empire, and a book on the religious architecture of Istanbul. He’s married to Kate, his companion on the walk to Istanbul; they live in Dorset, England, with their four children. Keen cooks, like Yashim himself, they grow vegetables, keep hens and have two lurcher hounds.

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