Penguin Books Ltd – The Bell Bookshop

Forty Rules of Love (Signed Edition)

Emma — Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The international bestseller from the Booker-shortlisted author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World. “One of the BBC’s ‘100 Novels that Shaped the World'”. “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 Rumi and his mentor Shams of Tabriz, and his forty rules of life and love, she is ready to look at her life anew. Compelled to embrace change, she embarks on a journey to meet the mysterious author. It is a quest infused with Sufi mysticism and verse, taking Ella and us into a faraway world where faith and doubt are heartbreakingly explored. The Forty Rules of Love is a mesmerising tale of discovery, language, truth and, of course, love itself.

merry wives audio

Emma — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:24:32 +0000

The dissolute Sir John Falstaff plans to seduce mistress Ford and Mistress Page, two "merry wives of Windsor", thereby gaining access to their husbands' wealth. The two women have the old rogue's measure, however, and Falstaff's plots lead only to his humiliation.

Letter & Other Stories

Emma — Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:00:00 +0000

This audiobook includes "Episode", "The Letter", "The Luncheon", "Mr Know-All" and "Princess September". "The Letter" centres around a posied, elegant murderess and a self-assured colonial world where men and women are caught between English values and the rich ambiguity of their surroundings.

Henry VIII Arkangel Audio

Emma — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000

King Henry is married to Katherine of Aragon, but he is smitten by the charms of the queen's maid of honour, and is tempted to divorce his wife. Meanwhile, the lords of England resent the influence of Henry's trusted advisor, Cardinal Wolsey, who is gradually drawing power into his own hands.