Elif Shafak

Book Club: Elif Shafak

Recorded: Sat 17 Apr 2021

Duration: 1 hour

Book Club: Elif Shafak

Award-winning Turkish-British author Elif Shafak joins Alex Clark for our monthly Book Club to explore her extraordinary novel, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.

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Miranda Seymour

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Toby WIlkinson

Toby Wilkinson | The story of ancient egypt

Clare jackson

Clare Jackson | Devil-land

crime past present future

Greg Mosse, Jim Kelly & Gytha Lodge | Arresting thrillers

Celia Paul & Rowan Williams

Celia Paul & Rowan Williams | Letters to Gwen John

Abi Morgan | This is not a pity memoir

Simon McDonald & Sam Fowles

Sam Fowles & Simon Macdonald | Democracy in crisis

Seirian Summer (2)

Seirian Sumner | The Secret World of Wasps

David Dimbleby

David Dimbleby | Keep Talking

Orlando Figes

Orlando Figes | The Story of Russia

Ian McEwan

Ian McEwan | Lessons

Katherine Rundell

Katherine Rundell |

Christie Watson

Christie Watson | The Messy Magic of Midlife

Jeffrey Boakye

Jeffrey Boakye | Dismantling Racism in Education

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Jarvis Cocker | Good Pop, Bad Pop

Julia Boyd

Julia Boyd | Travellers in the Third Reich

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Mya Rose Craig | Birdgirl

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New Statesman Podcast | Political Animals

Ruth Jones

Ruth Jones | Love untold

Sarah Churchwell

Sarah Churchwell | The Lies America Tells

Tori Ferenc - Goldsmiths PRrize

The Goldsmiths Prize | Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams

Kate Mosse

Kate Mosse | Warrior Queens & quiet Revolutionaries

Oliver Bullough

Oliver Bullough | How we became servant to the super rich

Nadiya Hussain

Nadiya Hussain | Everyday Baking

Tessa Hadley & Margaret Drabble

Tessa Hadley & Margaret Drabble

Kamila Shamsie

Kamila Shamsie | Best of Friends

Luke Harding

Luke Harding | From Russia to Ukraine

Edmund De Waal and Norman McBeath

Edmund de Waal & Norman McBeath

George Monbiot

George Monbiot | Feeding the world without devouring the planet

Esme Young

Esme Young | Behind the seams

Jeremy Bowen

Jeremy Bowen | The modern Middle East

Malcolm Gaskill

Malcolm Gaskill | The ruin of all witches

Brenda Hale

Brenda Hale | Spiderwoman

Duncan Weldon & Kojo Koram

Duncan Weldon & Kojo Koram

Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles | The Good Drinker

Susan Sellers Maggie Humm

Susan Sellers and Maggie Humm | Celebrating Virginia Woolf

Patrick Gale

Patrick Gale | Mother’s Boy

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David Hendy | The BBC at 100

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo | The Carnival of Animals

Parwana Fayyaz Afghan

Afghan Women Writers | My Pen is the Wing of a Bird

John Crace

John Crace | A Farewell to Calm 

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Tom de Freston | Julia and the Shark

Julia Laite & Hallie Rubenhold

Julia Laite & Hallie Rubenhold | The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey 

Will Young

Will Young | Be Yourself and Happier

Sam Knight

Sam Knight | The Premonitions Bureau – A True Story

Peter Geogheghan

Peter Geoghegan | Democracy for Sale

thomas halliday

Thomas Halliday | Otherlands

Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain | Lily

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