The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak

The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough" 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. So when Ella reads a manuscript about the thirteenth century Sufi poet

'Pacey and visceral

A sweeping story of love and rescue and an unforgettable journey back in time to the Second World War - from the Nation's Favourite Storyteller At her ancestors' home in Ithaca

New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman

I was utterly bewitched

'The most brilliant and courageous Irish historian of his generation' Colm Toibin

This collection of writing ultimately poses the question: What does it mean to be Irish

From the legendary Deirdre and Naoise to WB Yeats and Maud Gonne

showing us a course of events that shaped it for generations to come

It is a celebration of love in all its forms

Look out for more novelty books from Rod Campbell including Look After Us

and a devotion to all that is living

Faye has hope for the future - and maybe so should we' Independent