In our weekly look at books, we focus on Waterstones\u2019 Fiction Book of the Month for April 2025\u2026<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak<\/p>\n
Top Ten Chart with Waterstones of Norfolk Street, in Lynn<\/p>\n
1. Fearless \u2013 Lauren Roberts<\/p>\n
2. King\u2019s Lynn: a Potted History \u2013 Paul Richards<\/p>\n
3. Playfair Cricket Annual 2025<\/p>\n
4. The List of Suspicious Things \u2013 Jenny Godfrey<\/p>\n
5. Death at the Sign of the Rook \u2013 Kate Atkinson<\/p>\n
6. There are Rivers in the Sky \u2013 Elif Shafak<\/p>\n
7. Enchantra \u2013 Kaylie Smith<\/p>\n
8. History of the World in 47 Borders \u2013 Jonn Elledge<\/p>\n
9. All the Colours of the Dark – Chris Whitaker<\/p>\n
10. The Ministry of Time \u2013 Kaliane Bradley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In our weekly look at books, we focus on Waterstones\u2019 Fiction Book of the Month for April 2025\u2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,609,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-32640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-human-interest","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}