Children's & YA
February 2019
A Tudor Turk - The Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel, Book One
by Rehan Khan
ISTANBUL, 1591 - and Sultan Murad III has been robbed! The Staff of Moses, used at the parting of the Red Sea, has been stolen from under his imperial nose. To track down the thieves, an elite band of hand-picked warriors is assembled. Among them are friends Awa and Will. Awa, the studious daughter of a noble family from West Africa, once a slave but now a whirling force with a scimitar, and Will, snatched as a child from his home in London at the age of 5, is now 16 and a galley slave on a Moroccan warship. Escaping that fate to join the Rüzgar turns him into a man. From the roofs of Ottoman Istanbul, along the canals of Venice and all the way to the court of Elizabeth I. The first in a series of three books.
