Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club23 Jan 2025

There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak with Elif Shafak

This week's book guest is There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak.

Sara and Cariad are joined by the award winning Turkish-British novelist Elif Shafak. Elif has published 21 books and is best known for her novels, which include The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World. Her works have been translated into 57 languages and she has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the Costa Book Awards, the British Book Awards and the Women's Prize For Fiction.

In this episode they discuss the British Museum, archaeology, buried rivers, Samuel Beckett, literature festivals and Hemingway's writing schedule.

Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you!

Trigger warning: In this episode we discuss genocide, sexual slavery and trafficking.

There are Rivers in the Sky is available to buy here.

You can find Elif on Instagram @shafakelif

Her website is www.elifsafak.com

Her Substack is called Unmapped Storylands

Tickets for Sara's tour show I Am A Strange Gloop are available to buy from sarapascoe.co.uk

Sara’s debut novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to buy here.

Cariad’s book You Are Not Alone is published by Bloomsbury and is available to buy here.

Cariad’s children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe is available to buy now.

Follow Sara & Cariad’s Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub

Recorded and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.

Artwork by Welcome Studio.

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