2022 Releases

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo of horns honking; the shouts of street vendors; the...

When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother...

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author — a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian...

Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not for the party...

A searing, gritty debut crime novel with a resourceful and unforgettable heroine who must make her way in a man's worldBe twice as good as men and four times as...

Award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the meanings of silence in this collection of provocative and lyrical essays.In this moving and lyrical collection of essays, the award-winning poet and...

A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born.1866,...

An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman’s journey to find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. Hailed as ‘whip smart’ by Australian Women’s Weekly. New York, 1954. A Fifth...

A queen of punk before her time. A duo on the brink of stardom. A night that will define their story for ever. Opal is a fiercely independent young woman...

Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years...

These are the books you should read. This is the canon. Joan Anim-Addo, Deirdre Osborne and Kadija Sesay have curated a decolonized reading list that celebrates the wide and diverse...

Feminism in the Twenty-First CenturyA landmark book that provides us with a new way of thinking about sex, from one of the most exciting and important young intellectuals at work...

Assassin. Immortal. Spy. An ill-matched pair of spies pose as a couple to investigate a series of murders in 1930s Shanghai, from the author of These Violent Delights. Four years...

Translated by Max Weiss A powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring. Jumaa is a schoolteacher...

'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life...

A delightful, decadent romance, and a joyful celebration of Black excellence, from an award-winning author.It's the opportunity of a lifetime: Feyi is about to be given the chance to escape...

The captivating sequel to Foul Lady Fortune, by the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights. A lover in peril. A nation under threat. The clock is ticking...

In Praise of Black Performance A celebration of Black culture beyond the white gaze, from the "MacArthur genius" who has been dubbed 'the most important cultural critic in America right...

A genre-bending work of gothic fiction that wrestles with the tangled history of racism in America and the marginalization of society's undesirables.Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, who...

A Little Women RemixFour young Black sisters come of age during the American Civil War in So Many Beginnings, a warm and powerful YA remix of the classic novel Little...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHT WATCHMAN In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich...

Good Omens meets The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet in Ryka Aoki's Light From Uncommon Stars, a defiantly joyful adventure set in California's San Gabriel Valley, with cursed...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 * LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN AMERICA OPEN BOOK AWARDLibertie Sampson was named by her father as he lay dying, in honour...

The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing Black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine EvaristoBeing denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office...

The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win — the first by a Black woman — was a revolutionary...

A powerful collection of new and recently completed poems by Ben Okri covering topics of the day, such as the refugee crisis, racism, Obama, the Grenfell Tower fire, and the...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to...

How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls WorldwideNice Leng'ete was raised in a Maasai village in Kenya. In 1998, when Nice was six, her...

An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court.She's drawn into simmering personal dramas. Her lover, Adriaan, is separated from his wife...

Longlisted for the 2022 Women's Prize for FictionA sensual meditation on the nature of love and addiction, this dazzling and incisive novel satirises postcolonial society and celebrates oddness.Dawn breaks across...

Winner of the 2019 UEA Crime Writing Prize, Lightseekers is the start of a major new crime series introducing investigative psychologist Dr Philip TaiwoWhen three young students are brutally murdered...