The King at the Edge of the World is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2020 by Arthur Phillips

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Phillips, Arthur, author.

Title: The king at the edge of the world : novel / Arthur Phillips.

Description: New York : Random House, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019019018| ISBN 9780812995480 | ISBN 9780812995497 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Turkey—History—Ottoman Empire, 1288–1918—Fiction. | Great Britain—History—Elizabeth, 1558–1603—Fiction. | James I, King of England, 1566–1625—Fiction. | GSAFD: Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3616.H45 K56 2019 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2019019018

Ebook ISBN 9780812995497

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