On our Emirates Airline Festival of Literature History and Historical Fiction show on Talking of Books, Isobel Abulhoul (host) and Penny Mackenzie (co-host) are joined by Charles Nahhas to discuss Bettany Hughes’ latest, ‘Istanbul’, followed by reviewers Heidi Frost, Suzzane Pautler, Tikki Zaman, Shikha Narula and Martin Lonergan discuss ‘Timekeepers’ by Simon Garfield, ‘The End Game’ by Raymond Khoury, Leila Aboulela’s ‘The Kindness of Enemies’, Tanya Landman’s ‘Hell and High Water’ and ‘The Silk Road’ by Peter Frankopan.