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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
For Leila, each minute after her death recalls a sensuous memory: spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the birth of a yearned-for son; bubbling vats of lemon and sugar to wax women's legs while men are at prayer; the cardamom coffee she shares with a handsome student in the brothel wh ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
$12.99 AUD
Category: Self Help
The Booker Prize-shortlisted author on how staying optimistic can make our world better. The must-read, pocket-sized Big Think book of 2020. It feels like the world is falling apart. So how do we keep hold of our optimism? How do we nurture the parts of ourselves that hope, trust and believe in someth ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
In this follow-up to her acclaimed 2007 novel The Bastard of Istanbul, Turkish author Elif Shafak unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives-one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi encountered his spiritual mentor, the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz-that toget ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$32.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An unforgettable new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. The taverna is the only place that Kostas and Defne can meet in secret, hidden beneath t ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees: Reese's Pick by Elif Shafak
$22.99 AUD
Category: International Fiction
Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home. The tavern is the only place that Kostas, who is Greek and Christian, and Defne, who is Turkish and Muslim, can meet, in secret, hidden beneath the blackened beams from which hang garlands of garlic, ...Show more
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor. A relic from a past - and a love ...Show more
Turkey: The Passenger by Elif Shafak and Fattima Bhutto, et al.
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History | Series: The Passenger
The Big Dig by Elif Batuman -A Story of Dust and Lightby Burhan Sönmez - An Author Recommends by Elif Shafak - plus: the thirty-year coup and the dam that is washing away 12,000 years of history, and more. The birth of the "New Turkey," as the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called his own ...Show more
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