CONTENTS ART & ARCHITECTURE COVER STORY: THE PALACE LADY'S SUMMERHOUSE: How a Bosphorus beauty recaptured her sparkle, by Patricia Daunt· NEW LIGHT ON OLD TREASURES: The V&A gains a glittering stage for its Islamic treasures. By Tim Stanley PEOPLE & PLACES: VIEWS FROM THE EDGE OF BEYOND Sir Percy Sykes's photographs of Turkestan in 1915, by Antony Wynn. Connoisseur ART BOOKS SPECIAL: Children of the Ottoman seraglio The photographers of nineteenth-century Istanbul Edinburgh's Islamic heirlooms from the Hermitage Book Review's: The best Istanbul killer-thrillers; the real Greek tragedy; the power of Turkish poetry; the taste of Sufi cuisine; the attraction of travelling sola· Regulars CONNOISSEUR'S DIARY. PRIVATE VIEW by Andrew Finkel· LETTERS. PA ST AND PLEASANT: Nothing like a good ruin. A new travel series by Patricia Daunt· VILLAGE VOICES by Azize Ethem. RESTAURANTS by Andrew Finkel and Christopher Ryan.

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