28. Elif Shafak

By Daisy Buchanan

You're Booked

10/06/19·59m 51s

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