Writers told us about their favourite book: the book that inspires or touches them, that set their artistic, moral or intellectual compass. In short, the book they would recommend to everyone. Interview: Abdelkader Benali.

Benzokarim talked about The Forty Rules of Love by top author Elif Shafak, participating in Friday Night Unlimited tonight (24 January 2025). The novel, published in 2015 tells about Ella Rubinstein: forty-year-old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a proofreader at a literary agency. Her first assignment, reading a manuscript about the mystic Sufi Rumi, sheds new light on Ella's own life - and on her views on love.