We're back in leafy London this week and visiting the beautiful home (including glorious bookshelves with a library ladder that made us green with envy) of Elif Shafak. Elif is a celebrated and award-winning novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, and Three Daughters of Eve. Her latest book is the critically acclaimed 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Elif is also an activist advocating for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech. We talked to her about baklava, politics, Death Metal and stationery obsessions.
BOOKS (CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE)
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve
Marco Pierre White - The Devil in the Kitchen
Samin Nosrat - Salt Fat Acid Heat
Jason Goodwin - Yashim Cooks Istanbul
Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities
Virginia Woolf - Orlando
Rowan Coleman - We Are All Made of Stars
Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend
Thomas Page McBee - Amateur
Elif Shafak - Honour
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Esquire - Oral History of Bennington
Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction
David Sedaris - Calypso
Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate
Rumi - Selected Poems
Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall
Matthew Sperling - Astroturf
Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner
Will Eaves - Murmur
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Marian Keyes - The Break
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