The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

In this lyrical, exuberant follow-up to her novel The Bastard of Istanbul, acclaimed Turkish author Elif Shafak incarnates Rumi's timeless message of loveThe Forty Rules of Love unfolds two tantalizing parallel narratives--one contemporary and the other set in the thirteenth century, when Rumi

The Gaze (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

From award-winning writer Elif Shafak, the Orange Prize long-listed author of The Forty Rules of Love and The Architect's Apprentice, The Gaze is a humorous and carnivalesque exploration of what it means to look and be looked at... An obese woman and her lover, a dwarf, are sick of being stared at

Forty Rules of Love (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

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

Three Daughters of Eve (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the present day, Three Daughters of Eve is a sweeping tale of faith and friendship, tradition and modernity, love and an unexpected betrayal.Peri, a wealthy Turkish housewife and mother, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in

Bastard of Istanbul (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

Three Daughters of Eve (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

The Architect's Apprentice (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

From the acclaimed author of The Bastard of Istanbul, a colorful, magical tale set during the height of the Ottoman Empire Chosen for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall's 'Reading Room' Book Club In her latest novel, Turkey's preeminent female writer spins an epic tale spanning nearly a century in the

The Bastard of Istanbul (Shafak Elif)(Paperback)

A 'vivid and entertaining' (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick) 'Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.' --USA Today As an Armenian American living in San

10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'Expect vibrant, vivid and eye-opening descriptions of Middle Eastern life propelled by a tender storyline, all in Shafak's haunting, beautiful and considered prose' Vanity Fair'Incredibly sensuous and poetic and evocative' Pandora Sykes'Richly uplifting

Love's Ripening: Rumi on the Heart's Journey (Rumi Mevlana Jalaluddin)(Paperback)

Love is the meaning of our existence, the raw material of transformation, the glorious way of access to Divine intimacy. This teaching infuses the lyric verse of Rumi (1207-1273), the greatest of the Sufi poets. The poems in this collection, taken from among the master's many volumes of work, focus

Bastard of Istanbul (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in

Honour (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

Leaving her twin sister behind, Pembe leaves Turkey for love - following her husband Adem to London. There the Topraks hope to make new lives for themselves and their children. Yet, no matter how far they travel, the traditions and beliefs the Topraks left behind stay with them - carried in the

Black Milk - On Motherhood and Writing (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

Postpartum depression affects millions of new mothers every year. This is an epic poem to women

Architect's Apprentice (Shafak Elif)(Paperback / softback)

Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan. The boy is utterly alone in a foreign land, with no worldly possessions to his name except Chota, a rare white elephant destined for the palace

Rum: A Landscape Without Figures (Love John a.)(Paperback)

An extensive historical guide to Rum - one of Scotland's most well-known of the Hebridean

Rules of Seeing (Heap Joe)(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the Debut Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2019 When you make eye contact, when you hold someone's gaze, it's the closest thing to knowing you're not alone in the world. `This year's Eleanor Oliphant' Claire Allan `Astonishing' Ruth Hogan `Strikingly brilliant' Sun After 32 years of

Rules of the Road (Geraghty Ciara)(Paperback / softback)

Gripping, emotional and uplifting - a novel about the true power of friendship. 'a tender, emotional and uplifting read ... I loved it' Lucy Diamond 'A superb writer - the Irish Jojo Moyes' Irish

The Love Poems of Rumi: Translated by Nader Khalili (Rumi)(Pevná vazba)

Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi--commonly referred to simply

Rule of Two: Star Wars Legends (Darth Bane) (Karpyshyn Drew)(Mass Market Paperbound)

In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, the second in the Darth Bane trilogy, the fearsome Sith lord takes on a deadly new apprentice. Darth Bane's twisted genius made him a natural leader among the Sith-until his radical embrace of an all-but-forgotten wisdom drove him to destroy his own order

The Pocket Rumi (Jalaluddin Rumi Mevlana)(Paperback)

A collection of the best of Rumi's poetry. The renowned Persian Sufi mystic Mevl na Jal luddin Rumi (1207-1273) is one of the most widely read poets in the world today. His compassionate insight into the nature of human existence, his joyful humor, his deep wisdom, and his ecstatic songs of divine

Love All (Jane Howard Elizabeth)(Paperback / softback)

A novel of love and its fragility, and the strength of family love, from the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet

Watermelon, a Fish and a Bible - A heartwarming tale of love amid war (Lefteri Christy)(Paperback / softback)

A moving novel of love and war by the author of The Beekeeper of

Death of a Superhero (McCarten Anthony)(Paperback / softback)

A novel about the celebration of the transience of life, the eternal difficulty of love and a hilarious riff on our 21st-century infatuation with movies and the superhero

For the Love of a Life (Holder Simon)(Paperback / softback)

For the Love of a Life is an intimate and searching novel that explores the deepest emotions of a girl who wants both success and true love, but at what