The Architect's Apprentice

An epic tale spanning nearly a century in the life of the Ottoman Empire. In 1540, twelve-year-old Jahan arrives in Istanbul. An animal tamer in the sultan?s menagerie, he looks after the...

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The Forty Rules of Love

Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives - one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century. Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as...

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The Gaze

In her prize-wining novel, The Gaze, Shafak explores the subject of body image and desirability. An overweight woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at wherever they go, and decide to...

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Three Daughters of Eve

On a spring evening in Istanbul, Peri is on her way to a dinner party. But when her handbag is stolen her world shifts violently. She starts to doubt how she got here: a traumatic Istanbul childhood,...

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The Architect's Apprentice

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The Forty Rules of Love

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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now...

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The Bastard of Istanbul

From one of Turkey’s most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.

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The Island of Missing Trees

The Island of Missing Trees is a rich, magical tale of belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.

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There are Rivers in the Sky

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of...

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