Elif Shafak discusses her bestselling novel The Forty Rules of Love.

Novelist Elif Shafak describes how fiction has allowed her to explore many different lives, to jump over cultural walls, and how it may have the power to overcome identity politics.

Writer Elif Shafak discusses her new novel, There are Rivers in the Sky, and why oral traditions still matter ...

Elif Shafak, writer, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs. She has published ten novels and is the most widely-read female novelist in Turkey today.

Nick Barley, the book festival director, was a late addition as informal chair of a discussion involving Andrew O’Hagan, Richard Holloway and Elif Shafak. His instinct was that it would be an ...