2023 releases

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity…...

The unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award.Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get to...

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gamingThis is the story of...

A faded list.Nine favourite stories.For two strangers, friendship is only a page away . . .When Mukesh Patel pops to the local library, forgoing his routine of grocery shopping and...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

The powerful and poignant new novel from the author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man. Raised in a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally...

Translated by Alison Watts THE BESTSELLING JAPANESE NOVEL For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this soul-stirring Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation...

The tragicomic novel of the summer, a ‘dark and insane gem’ from the author of the critically acclaimed TikTok sensation BunnyMiranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that...

Translated by Emily North A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works...

What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by...

A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New YorkIf you really want to know, we are the colour of 7-Eleven root beer....

VAGABONDS! is a tumultuous and unexpectedly joyous novel of oppression and defiance among the people and spirits of Lagos.Lagos is a city for all . . . you share this...

Winner of the 2022 Women’s PrizeIf you let it — if you listen — a book could change your life.After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can hear objects...

A prize-winning classic novel, as relevant today as when it was first written. Potiki is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven...

Translated by Jamie ChangThe Prize-Winning International BestsellerWhen a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for...

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief.An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open WaterThe one thing that can solve...

Can Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her?To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story — a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients at...

But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, for readers of The Idiot by Elif Batuman and...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

An unforgettable debut novel about first love, family obligation and finding your way.In the wake of first heartbreak, Nur somehow meets his perfect woman. Yasmina is bright, beautiful and, what’s...

From the internationally bestselling author ofExit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MAAME is the most moving debut - and a heroine you'll never forget. Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but...

Lizzie doesn't like the way she looks. Though she dates guys online, she's afraid to send pictures — no-one wants a fat girl.So Lizzie starts to lose weight. With punishing...

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY... YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in...

Discover this astonishing work of fiction from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott.THIS IS A TRUE STORY. An author goes on a book tour for his new bestseller...

An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother; centering on a woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held...

An international bestseller that was made into a multiple award-winning film.Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he is focused on his duties as chief of a Māori...

When Mika Suzuki reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago, can she convince her to stay?At 35, Mika Suzuki is struggling. She's been fired (again)....

Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance to stop it all falling apart . . .Jenna, Kees and Malak have been friends for years: the three of them together against...

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story —...

Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family,...

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart.When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking...

A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARA LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF 2021Patrick Hamlin has come from New York to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen,...

Translated by Shanna Tan There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man,...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONFAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. AND TEAR YOU APART.Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle...

The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BRICK LANETWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for:...

Translated by Chi-Young KimShortlisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeA sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce, and fantasy — a masterpiece of modern fiction perfect for fans of One Hundred...

Funny, touching uplit set in the Sydney restaurant scene. Bitter & Sweet will be Amal Awad's breakout bookThe lake in the middle of her father's kitchen is only the first...

THE NO.1 KOREAN BESTSELLER WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLDIn a mysterious town that lies hidden in our collective subconscious, there's a quaint little store where all kinds of dreams...

A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a debt he may never...

A shocking and unsettling tale of murder that is at times funny, at times erotic, always outspoken and iconoclastic. A genre-breaking novel from a powerful new African voice.How do you...

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated...

A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embrace this activist-centred contemporary novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of...

Unmissable, uplifting debut fiction — a richly mythic love story set in the lush landscape of modern TrinidadDarwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city to seek his...

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself...

Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work.She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall...

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro 'Prieto' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying, Latinx neighborhood in...

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant — a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of...