The international bestseller from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World, The Forty Rules of Love is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classics \\\"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation....

From Booker-shortlisted author Elif Shafak, Honour is a gripping tale of love, betrayal and clashing cultures. \"My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten\" Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family....

A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestseller It is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided land, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home....

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 Istanbul....

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, The High Low \"Richly uplifting......

Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground - an old polaroid of three young women and their university professor....

\"The Architect\'s Apprentice\" is a dazzling and intricate tale from Elif Shafak, bestselling author of \"The Bastard of Istanbul\". \"There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together...\" Sixteenth century Istanbul: a stowaway arrives in the city bearing an extraordinary gift for the Sultan....

Pembe and Adem Toprak leave Turkey for London. There they make new lives for their family. Yet the traditions and beliefsof their home come with them - carried in the blood of their children, Iskender and Esma. Trapped by past mistakes, the Toprak children Jind their lives torn apart and transformed by a brutal and chilling crime....

One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a nineteen-year-old, unmarried woman walks into a doctor\'s surgery. \"I need to have an abortion,\" she announces. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. All the Kazanci men die in their early ^? forties, victims of the mysterious family curse, so it is a house of women....

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 wherever they go and so decide to reverse roles....

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....

Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak\"s The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery....

There were six of us: the master, the apprentices and the white elephant. We built everything together. Mosques, bridges, madrasas, caravanserais, alms houses, aqueducts... I think about Istanbul every day. People must be walking now across the courtyards of the mosques, not knowing, not seeing....

Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak\'s The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who together become embroiled in a mystery....

\"My mother died twice. I promised myself I would not let her story be forgotten...\" 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....