Turkey Street

Six months into their Turkish affair, Jack and Liam, a gay couple from London, took lodgings in the oldest ward of Bodrum Town. If they wanted to shy away from the curtain-twitchers, they couldn't have chosen a worse position. Their terrace overlooked Turkey Street like the balcony of Buckingham Palace and the middle-aged infidels stuck out like a couple of drunks at a temperance meeting. Against all the odds, the boys from the Smoke were welcomed into the fold by a feisty mix of eccentric locals and a select group of trailblazing expats, irresistible ladies with racy pasts and plucky presents. Hop aboard Jack's rainbow gulet as he navigates the choppy waters of a town on the march and a national resurgence not seen since Suleiman the Magnificent was at the gates of Vienna. Grab your deckchair for a whirlwind tour of love and duty, passion and betrayal, broken hearts and broken bones, dirty politics and the dawn of a new Ottoman era.

Preface-Postcard from the Ege; 1-The Garden of Sin; 3-Home Alone; 4-In the Bleak Midwinter; 5-A Christmas Carol; 6-Turkey with all the Trimmings; 7-The Bodrum Belles; 8-The Sisterhood; 9-Raindrops on Roses; 10-The Best of Times; 11-The Worst of times; 12-In the Name of the Father...; 13-Blessed are the Meek; 14-A New Beginning; 15-Happy Birthday, Uncle Sam; 16-Little Drummer Boy; 17-The Last Supper; 18-Irfan the Slut; 19-Bees Around the Honeypot; 20-The Harlequin and the Clown; 21-The Gathering Storm; 22-For Better, For Worse; 23-'Til Death Us Do Part; 24-For Whom the Belles Toll; 25-The Letter; 26-Gorilla in the Mist; 27-The Exiles; 28-All About Eve; 29-Erdem and Eve; 30-The Winds of Change; 31-The Ringing of the Belles; 32-School's Out; Expat Glossary; A Word or Two in British; A Word of Two in Turkish; Postscript-The Girl in the Red Dress