There’s a novel inside each of us, or so the adage goes, but sometimes it’s difficult to prise those ideas out from within ...

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist. Her latest book, There are Rivers in the Sky, has just hit the ...

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Following the massacre of 2014, some 200,000 Yazidis still live in refugee camps in Kurdistan, unable to return to their ...

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Manchester Literature Festival returns this autumn with some of today’s biggest names in fiction scheduled to appear. Matt ...

Elif Shafak, the acclaimed Turkish-British author, brings a unique perspective to her writing. In her new novel, There are ...

As I read There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak, I wished there was such a thing as reverse pathetic fallacy. Much of ...