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1. Elif Shafak

The Architect's Apprentice

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 menagerie.

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In One Brief Moment All Eternity

In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary. Long considered one of the world's most influential writers, Gustave Flaubert paved the way for generations of novelists to come, and no protagonist of his is more indelibly immortalized than Madame Emma Bovary, whose tempestuous-yet-quotidian existence has captured the minds of nearly two centuries of readers. But Flaubert wrote Emma into being during one of the most chaotic and transformative eras in French history, replete with war, famine, and violence, and one of his own most troubled periods, during which he faced censorship and imprisonment. With remarkable discipline, Flaubert forged onwards, unstoppably embodying the drive and need to create during times of immense personal and political transformation. On the heels of her most successful book yet, There Are Rivers in the Sky, Shafak has given us a triumphant new tale that weaves the traditions of the European realist novel with the ethereal, twilight-tinged oral storytelling of the Middle East. It is a novel fired by the questions long haunting Shafak's work--Who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?--and shot through with a transcendent lightness and sensuality, each chapter tinged with different prisms of hues that evoke the vibrancy of Flaubert's epileptic episodes. It's a tale suffused by that feeling which comes when you are grabbed by a story and a character and plunged into the life of another, tumbling through space and time from the reader's present to Flaubert's 19th-century France. "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Flaubert is alleged to have said. But indeed, Flaubert was many others, and now, for the first time, these female ghosts--Flaubert's nanny, his mistress, a corpse, a half-drawn character--finally speak, their stories pouring forth with a tenderness and agony that will renew one's faith in the transformational power of art, even in the grimmest of times. One of the most breathtaking and inventive novels of Shafak's oeuvre, in the vein of Colm Tóibín and Maggie O'Farrell's literary reimaginations, this book bridges worlds--between East and West, past and present, intellectual and spiritual, real and imaginary, and even hope and despair, dancing delicately on the knife's edge of each.

1. Elif Shafak

In One Brief Moment All Eternity

Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf. Make place for her in your heart too. You won't regret it

1. Elif , Shafak

In One Brief Moment All Eternity

In this boldly rendered novel, a meditation on creativity in the darkest of times, Elif Shafak imagines in vivid color the life of legendary French writer Gustave Flaubert and all the women who possessed him--the fictional ones he conjured and the real ones who shaped him--particularly Madame Bovary. Long considered one of the world's most influential writers, Gustave Flaubert paved the way for generations of novelists to come, and no protagonist of his is more indelibly immortalized than Madame Emma Bovary, whose tempestuous-yet-quotidian existence has captured the minds of nearly two centuries of readers. But Flaubert wrote Emma into being during one of the most chaotic and transformative eras in French history, replete with war, famine, and violence, and one of his own most troubled periods, during which he faced censorship and imprisonment. With remarkable discipline, Flaubert forged onwards, unstoppably embodying the drive and need to create during times of immense personal and political transformation. On the heels of her most successful book yet, There Are Rivers in the Sky, Shafak has given us a triumphant new tale that weaves the traditions of the European realist novel with the ethereal, twilight-tinged oral storytelling of the Middle East. It is a novel fired by the questions long haunting Shafak's work--Who gets to speak, and what would the silenced have said?--and shot through with a transcendent lightness and sensuality, each chapter tinged with different prisms of hues that evoke the vibrancy of Flaubert's epileptic episodes. It's a tale suffused by that feeling which comes when you are grabbed by a story and a character and plunged into the life of another, tumbling through space and time from the reader's present to Flaubert's 19th-century France. "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," Flaubert is alleged to have said. But indeed, Flaubert was many others, and now, for the first time, these female ghosts--Flaubert's nanny, his mistress, a corpse, a half-drawn character--finally speak, their stories pouring forth with a tenderness and agony that will renew one's faith in the transformational power of art, even in the grimmest of times. One of the most breathtaking and inventive novels of Shafak's oeuvre, in the vein of Colm Tóibín and Maggie O'Farrell's literary reimaginations, this book bridges worlds--between East and West, past and present, intellectual and spiritual, real and imaginary, and even hope and despair, dancing delicately on the knife's edge of each.

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Les fleuves du ciel

1. Elif Shafak
2. Roddy Doyle
3. Eliza Clark

A Ghostly Little Book

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-seven languages. The author of twenty books, fourteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak's previous novel, THERE ARE RIVERS IN THE SKY, was the UK’s bestselling literary hardback novel of 2025, selling over 500,000 copies. Her work has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the RSL Ondaatje Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction, amongst others, and she is currently nominated for ‘Author of the Year’ at the British Book Awards. Elif Shafak was appointed President of the Royal Society of Literature in 2025. Her books have sold several million copies worldwide. Eliza Clark is the author of novels Boy Parts and Penance and the short story collection She’s Always Hungry. Boy Parts was named Blackwell’s Fiction book of the year and was adapted for the stage in 2023. She was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists, shortlisted for the Women’s Prize Futures 10 award and listed on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Europe. TOM CREWE was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life is his first novel. Crewe says: 'This is the book I knew I wanted to write long before I actually wrote it. I hope it reveals to readers an unfamiliar Victorian England that will surprise and provoke, inhabited by a generation in the process of discovering the nature and limits of personal freedom, struggling to create a better world as the twentieth century comes into view.'