28. Elif Shafak

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 Elif Shafak - Honour Donna Tartt - The Secret History Esquire - Oral History of Bennington Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction David Sedaris - Calypso Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate Rumi - Selected Poems Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Matthew Sperling - Astroturf Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner Will Eaves - Murmur Cervantes - Don Quixote Marian Keyes - The Break Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.