Wednesday, January 31, 2007
UK's Topselling Newspaper Loves EH!
The UK's largest newspaper, the Daily Telegraph (with an average daily circulation of 901,000), raves about Expat Harem in a review by Jo Parfitt: "This is not just another anthology by expat wives who long to get in print. This is a wonderful book; beautifully written, thought-provoking and inspiring. Every essay is spot on, literary and insightful. Grouped into sections, they cover everything from relationships with Turks and non-Turks to the food, the music, the humour and the passion. Be ready to book a flight to Istanbul afterwards."
Thursday, January 25, 2007
EH is Seattle #3 Bestseller for 2006!
Expat Harem has been named the #3 best selling paperback for all of 2006 at Seattle's renowned travel bookstore Wide World Books, where the editors and two contributors, Dena Sukaya and Wendy Fox, gave a reading in May. EH shares a space on the list with authors Bill Bryson (#5 with A Short History of Nearly Everything ) and Jared Diamond (#9 with Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed).
Monday, January 15, 2007
EH a UK National Bestseller! 
Expat Harem is appearing on national bestseller lists in the United Kingdom, making it to #13 this week in Amazon UK's Womens' Studies category, and in the top 30 bestselling books about Turkey at Waterstone's, a premium bookseller franchise.
The anthology's neighbors on these lists include feminist scholars like Clarissa Pinkola Estes (Women Who Run with the Wolves) and Azar Nafisi (Reading Lolita in Tehran) as well as political historian Bernard Lewis (The Emergence of Modern Turkey) and the BBC's former Istanbul correspondent Chris Morris (The New Turkey: Quiet Revolution on the Edge of Europe).
