In our weekly look at books, we focus on Waterstones’ Fiction Book of the Month for April 2025…
From the celebrated author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World comes an exquisitely constructed meditation on love, loss, and memory centred on three figures living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris.
There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the 19th century and modern times, about love and loss, memory and erasure, hurt and healing, centred around three enchanting characters living on the banks of the River Thames and the River Tigris – their lives all curiously touched by the epic of Gilgamesh.
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
Top Ten Chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn
1. Fearless – Lauren Roberts
2. King’s Lynn: a Potted History – Paul Richards
3. Playfair Cricket Annual 2025
4. The List of Suspicious Things – Jenny Godfrey
5. Death at the Sign of the Rook – Kate Atkinson
6. There are Rivers in the Sky – Elif Shafak
7. Enchantra – Kaylie Smith
8. History of the World in 47 Borders – Jonn Elledge
9. All the Colours of the Dark – Chris Whitaker
10. The Ministry of Time – Kaliane Bradley