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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul. '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 completely deprived of oxygen. But the ...Show more
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing by Elif Shafak
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year, and - like most of its victims- Elif Shafak never expected to be one of them. But after the birth of her first child in 2006, the internationally bestselling Turkish author remembers how, 'for the first time my adult life... words wouldn' ...Show more
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
14.99 NZD
Category: Essays
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 Flea Palace by Elif Shafak
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Bonbon Palace was once a stately apartment block in Istanbul. Now it is a sadly dilapidated home to ten wildly different individuals and their families. There's a womanizing, hard-drinking academic with a penchant for philosophy; a 'clean freak' and her lice-ridden daughter; a lapsed Jew in search of tr ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
25.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics*One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped the World'*"Every tru ...Show more
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
39.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent - and suddenly her life is transformed. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a passionate poet and advoc ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
An Indie Next PickThe stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprenticeand The Bastard of Istanbul.Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her ...Show more
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak
38.00 NZD
Category: General 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
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