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  • Published: 6 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529947243
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99
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The Golden Throne

The Curse of a King





An immersive reconstruction of the life of the most feared and powerful man of the sixteenth century, from the author of The Lion House

Istanbul, 1537. The greatest of the Ottoman Sultans is at his personal apogee and the pinnacle of world power. With both Christianity and Islam riven by schism, he is mighty enough to maul different enemies in different hemispheres at the same time. But a terrible crisis is building that will rip Suleyman’s family apart as his beloved wife Hurrem wages pitiless war against his first-born son, Mustafa, and the boy’s mother Mahidevran.

From the Baillie Gifford shortlisted historian, this intensely gripping, cinematic account of the life and world of Suleyman the Magnificent tells the story of one of the most consequential lives in world history while pioneering a ground-breaking new form of 'history in the present tense'.

  • Published: 6 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529947243
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99
Categories:

About the author

Christopher de Bellaigue

Christopher de Bellaigue was born in London in 1971, and was educated at Cambridge University, where he read Iranian and Indian Studies. Between 1995 and 2007, he lived and worked as a journalist in south Asia and the Middle East, writing for The Economist, Guardian and the New York Review of Books. He is the award-winning author of four books and has made several BBC television and radio programmes. He lives in London.

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