The Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s illustrated notebooks were reviewed yesterday in The Sunday Times by Justin Marozzi, the travel writer and historian. “Like opening the back of a Swiss watch,” he writes, “Memories of Distant Mountains reveals the inner workings, and oversized ego, of an immensely talented writer. It is an enthralling, challenging and maddening read — each page visually enchanting and arresting.” In an accompanying panel, Marozzi says that his favourite of Pamuk’s books is Istanbul: Memories of the City (published in some editions as Memories and the City), “surely the most accomplished and affecting memoir of this city in the English language”.