In The Endless Country (Picador, £20), Sami Kent, a journalist and radio producer with The Guardian, combines an account of the first hundred years of the Turkish republic with the story of his return to the land of his father. Reviewing the book in the Literary Review, Alexander Christie-Miller says it is “an insightful, moving and beautifully crafted portrait of a nation shaped and reshaped – often violently – by the forces of modernity and the paternalistic visions of its leaders”.

I’ve already mentioned here Christie-Miller’s own book on Istanbul, To The City, which was published in February.

Updated August 22: Sami Kent, I see, is talking about his book on the latest Great British Foreign Affairs Podcast, hosted by Anna-Joy Rickard.