Hinterlands - the bibliography

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.