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BookBar Presents... An Evening with Elif Shafak at Chelsea Arts Festival
BookBar Presents... An Evening with Elif Shafak at Chelsea Arts Festival

Fri 19 Sept

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Saatchi Gallery

BookBar Presents... An Evening with Elif Shafak at Chelsea Arts Festival

BookBar is bringing the social side of reading to the Saatchi Gallery with a conversation with author and activist Elif Shafak, in partnership with the Chelsea Arts Festival.

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19 Sept 2025, 18:15 – 19:30

Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York's HQ, King's Rd, London SW3 4RY, UK

About the event

BookBar is bringing the social side of reading to the Saatchi Gallery with a conversation with author and activist Elif Shafak, in partnership with the Chelsea Arts Festival.


Following our sold-out event at BookBar Chelsea in June, BookBar founder Chrissy Ryan and Elif Shafak return for one more night to discuss Elif’s latest novel, There Are Rivers in the Sky. Set between two continents over two thousand years, There Are Rivers in the Sky is full of Elif’s rich storytelling, following Arthur, a Victorian child, fascinated by stories of Ancient Mesopotamia; Narin, a teenage girl who journeys from contemporary Turkey to Iraq; and Zaleekhah, a heartbroken hydrologist living on the River Thames.


About There Are Rivers In The Sky

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping novel set between the…


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