A Tudor Turk - The Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel, Book One
by Rehan Khan
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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.
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Nominated for the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal
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‘Through this story and its cast of characters East meets West and rich meets poor providing windows into very different worlds and demonstrating, in particular through the two main characters, how trust, collaboration and a sense of shared purpose bring people together.
This is the first of a series and the story ends with a clear indication there is plenty more adventure to come.’ - Books For Keeps
‘…an authentically multicultural world of the late 1500s, centred on the Turkish Sultanate… With its straightforward storytelling, it is a book that could capture the imagination of teenagers who enjoy fantasy literature, and the many teenage readers who love Assassin's Creed will enjoy the setting, mysterious mission and swaggering sense of adventure.
This is an area of history which is endlessly fascinating and full of potential for adventure stories, and there are too few books about it…’’
BookTrust, The Books We Love
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- Publisher HopeRoad Publishing
- Publication Date February 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781908446978
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 7.99 GBP
- Pages304
- ReadershipTeenage/Young Adult
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2019
- Dimensions197 x 127 mm
- SeriesThe Chronicles of Will Ryde and Awa Maryam Al-Jameel
- Series Part1
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