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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World by Elif Shafak
$24.00 NZD
Category: 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
$14.99 NZD
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
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 (Penguin by Hand) by Elif Shafak
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin by Hand
Discover the forty rules of love...Ella Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage children, and a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident and fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life - an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thir ...Show more
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
$37.00 NZD
Category: 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: 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
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