What Am I Doing HereIn this personal selection of stories and travelogues, Chatwin reveals part of himself as he looks at the world populated by the wise, the misguided, the beautiful and the bizarre. It follows his view of the world through situations; he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Bruce Chatwin's last novel "Utz" was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker fiction prize. He has also written "The Viceroy of Ouidah" and "On the Black Hill", both of

shoe salesman Richard Roach

youngest daughter of a prosperous merchant

Nell hadn't spoken to him in years - ever since he fired her after an argument over a seemingly worthless highway roadside map

he knows he's witnessed more than an innocent encounter

just as suddenly she is kidnapped from his flat

Sara Shah once teetered on the edge of a dangerous circle

Meet Solina

has angered the sultan and is about to be attacked by Turkish forces

changes everything

But it is also a city of culture

the disgraced former detective is forced to seek refuge with the fairground family he once rejected

In the summer of 1863