Honour

A powerful book; thoughtful, provoking and compassionate ― Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat

Fascinating and gripping – a wonderful novel ― Rosamund Lupton, author of Sister

Elif Shafak has woven with masterful care and compassion one immigrant family’s heartbreaking story – a story nurtured in the terrible silences between men and women ― Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress

Honour is a powerful tale of family connection and heartbreak, offering us insight and delight in equal measure . . . an exquisite and deep rendering of the fullness of life. ― Aurelie Sheehan, author of The Anxiety of Everyday Objects

[Elif Shafak] joins writers such as Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith, Monica Ali, Aamer Hussein, Andrea Levy, Hanan al-Shakyh and Leila Aboulela, who offer us fictional glimpses of London’s Others ― The Independent

An honour killing is at the centre of this stunning novel . . . Exotic, evocative and utterly gripping ― The Times

Lushly and memorably magic-realist . . . This is an extraordinarily skilfully crafted and ambitious narrative ― The Independent

Shafak treats an important, absorbing subject in a fast-paced, internationally familiar style that will make it accessible to a wide readership ― Sunday Times

Compelling — Mariella Frostrup

Elif Shafak is an award-winning British Turkish novelist, whose work has been translated into fifty-eight languages. The author of twenty books, thirteen of which are novels, she is a bestselling author in many countries around the world. Shafak’s novel 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. The Island of Missing Trees was a Sunday Times bestseller, and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. There are Rivers in the Sky, which won an Edward Stanford Award for Fiction, is her latest novel.

Shafak holds a PhD in political science, and is a Fellow and a Vice President of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded the medal of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and, in 2024, was awarded the British Academy President’s Medal for ‘her excellent body of work which demonstrates an incredible intercultural range’.