Elif Shafak's compelling novel, The Forty Rules of Love, follows Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery as she examines her life & the concept of love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love... Ella Rubinstein has a husb&, three teenage children, & a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident & fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella's life
- an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi & Shams of Tabriz, & his forty rules of life & love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism & verse, taking Ella & us into an exotic world where faith & love are heartbreakingly explored... Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith & love. (Metro). Colourfully woven & beguilingly intelligent. (Daily Telegraph). The past & present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself. (The Times). Elif Shafak has emerged as one of the most distinctive voices in both English & Turkish contemporary literature; her novels, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Flea Palace, The Gaze & Honour, are consistently at the top of bestseller lists across the globe. Elif Shafak's examination of national identity, The Happiness of Blond People is available as part of the Penguin Specials series
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From the author of The Architect`s Apprentice & Honour, The Forty Rules of Love is Elif Shafak`s compelling & profound novel following Ella Rubinstein on a journey of self-discovery, examining life & love through Sufi mysticism. Discover the forty rules of love... Ella Rubinstein has a husb&, three teenage children, & a pleasant home. Everything that should make her confident & fulfilled. Yet there is an emptiness at the heart of Ella`s life
- an emptiness once filled by love. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi & Shams of Tabriz, & his forty rules of life & love, her world is turned upside down. She embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author of this work. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism & verse, taking Ella & us into an exotic world where faith & love are heartbreakingly explored...” Enlightening, enthralling. An affecting paean to faith & love.” (Metro). ” Colourfully woven & beguilingly intelligent.” (Daily Telegraph). ” The past & present fit together beautifully in a passionate defence of passion itself.” (The Times). Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of nine novels including The Bastard of Istanbul, The Architect`s Apprentice & Honour, & is the most widely read female writer in Turkey. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages & she contributes to numerous international publications, including the New York Times, Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, La Repubblica, Newsweek & Time magazine. She is also a public speaker working with The London Speaker Bureau & is a TED Global speaker. Elif Shafak has previously been longlisted for the Orange Prize, the Baileys Prize & the IMPAC Dublin Award, & shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. She is based in London with her two children & can be found on her website.
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The Forward Book of Poetry 2019 brings together the best poetry published in the British Isles over the last year, including the winners of the 2018 Forward Prizes. In showcasing the range & ambition of today`s fresh voices alongside new work by familiar names, this anthology is a perfect introduction to contemporary poetry.` The Forward Prizes are invaluable in finding the most essential, exciting voices, highlighting the contemporary poets who are at the top of their game & whose words will travel far & reach many readers.` Bidisha, chair of judges, Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018. ...

A follow-up to Andrea Wulf`s award-winning & critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams & James Madison`s passion for nature, plants, agriculture & gardens shaped the birth of America. Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams & Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal & the botanical & are in turns funny, fascinating & moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men & the American nation without considering their love of gardening. ...

This is the page-turning true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby-and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family & set in motion the second longest cold-case in US history. In 1964, a woman pretending to be a nurse kidnapped an infant boy named Paul Fronczak from a Chicago hospital. Two years later, police found a boy abandoned outside a variety store in New Jersey. The FBI tracked down Dora Fronczak, the kidnapped infant`s mother, & she identified the abandoned boy as her son. The family spent the next fifty years believing they were whole again-but Paul was always unsure about his true identity. Then, four years ago-spurred on by the birth of his first child, Emma Faith-Paul took a DNA test. The test revealed that he was definitely not Paul Fronczak. From that moment on, Paul has been on a tireless mission to find the man whose life he`s been living-and to discover who abandoned him, & why. Poignant & inspiring, The Foundling is a story about a child lost & a faith found, about the permanence of families & the bloodlines that define you, & about the emotional toll of both losing your identity & rediscovering who you truly are. ...

This is Ayn Rand`s story of Howard Roark, a brilliant architect who dares to stand alone against the hostility of second-hand souls. First published in 1943, this best-selling novel is a passionate defense of individualism & presents an exalted view of man`s creative potential; it is a book about ambition, power, gold & love. ...

The western United States is a region of astonishing open space which has profoundly shaped the American character. Here Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit with almost sacred power. His essays describe journeys--both physical & spiritual--to areas as remote as they are beautiful. ...

The first single-volume history of the mutual relations between the constituent parts of the UK (Engl&, Scotl&, Wales, Northern Ireland), made topical by the recent devolution developments in Scotland & Wales. By comparison with the United States, the history of the United Kingdom as an undivided entity has been quite short. This book describes the history of each constituent part, their interaction, & the effect of external events. As soon as British history is seen as an integral part of world (especially European) history, the perspective alters drastically. Until 1803 France was optimistically assumed to be part of the realm. Less than a century elapsed between 1829, when the grant of a very restricted franchise to Catholics made the inclusion of Ireland more than a political fiction, to 1922, when the Irish Free State emerged. Scotl&, with England the main constituent of the UK since 1707, has retained its own legal system, administration & established church (the Queen changes her religion each time she passes Berwick). Wales retains a distinctive culture & language, albeit one on an expensive life-support machine. ...

It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful & eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information & global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, & the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style & tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities & sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows & anxieties of a networked world? & how do we live in public, with these recoded private lives? Tackling ideas of time, space, friendship, commerce, pursuit & escape, & moving from Hamlet to the ghosts of social media, from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, from Facebook politics to Oedipus, The Four-Dimensional Human is a highly original & pioneering portrait of life in a digital landscape. ...