2022 Releases

The pa‘u is the pulse of the Cook Islands, a rhythm carrying narratives of a culture to its people. But beyond the reach of its sound, on another shore, a...

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's...

'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true' — Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous...

William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories. Ride on out...

A glorious new edition of the multi-award-winning historical novel about outsiders on the Queensland gold fields It is 1877 and trouble is brewing on the Queensland gold fields. Siblings Ying...

The magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning classic about a stranger in his native land from renowned Kiowa writer and poet N. Scott Momaday, now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from an eternity of her...

'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as...

When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly Black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly...

Translated by Donal McLaughlin Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and part 1001 Nights in Europe, this debut novel is drawn from the author’s experiences as a political prisoner and...

Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago — from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian...

*** ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 *** Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in...

‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMESIn this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.There is...

A novel about lovers, fathers and sons. About vulnerability, losses, love and regrets. Achike Okoro is an up-and-coming actor, soon to star in the career-making film 'Here Again Now.' His...

Translated by Marilyn Booth An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani...

A deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring. 'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely...

In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities. It’s winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

An emotional, tender and funny novel from award-winning author Alecia McKenzie that asks, what does family mean to you?Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends his world, artist Chris travels...

Lost in the jungle of Los Angeles, Akash Amin is filled with shame. Shame for liking men. Shame for wanting to be a songwriter. Shame for not being like his...

'A story rendered with so much heart' Taylor Jenkins Reid The bonds between women - as friends, and across the generations - are the jewels that make this story shine!'...

The long-awaited new novel from one of America's most highly regarded contemporary writers, The Committed follows the Sympathizer as he arrives in Paris as a refugee. There he and his...

Translated by Sunandini Banerjee May 1992. In Russia, Boris Yeltsin is showing millions of communists the spectre of capitalism. Yugoslavia is disintegrating. United Germany is uncertain about their next move,...

Glory arrives back in Peckham, from her seemingly-glamorous life in LA, to mourn the sudden death of her father, and finds her previously-close family has fallen apart in her absence....

Translated by Leri PriceRima, a young girl from Damascus, longs to walk, to be free to follow the will of her feet, but instead is perpetually constrained. Rima finds refuge...

Translated by Lisa Dillman Kingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of Bodies The Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration...

An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film. Alone one morning at a backstreet cafe, he strikes up a conversation...

Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined. I suppose what I'm trying...

A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community — and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of Black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s.Zala Spencer is barely...

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.When Fly and Stela meet in...

Translated by Miled Faiza and Karen McNeillWinner of the 2015 International Prize for Arabic FictionAn emblematic story of the shipwreck of the Arab Spring.At his father's funeral, to the great...

From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, this stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories exploring the inner...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as...

A radical landmark in Caribbean literature, reissued with a new foreword by Jamaica Kincaid to mark Wilson Harris' centenary: a visionary masterpiece tracing the dreamlike voyage of a riverboat crew...

Translated by Susan MassottyA father-son tale set amid the tumultuous history of twentieth-century Iran, written by a masterful Iranian novelist in exile.When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate,...

Translated by Richard Philcox A mesmerizing novel from one of the most important writers working today, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by some...

Jasmine Aimaq's stunning debut explores Afghanistan on the eve of a violent revolution and the far-reaching consequences of a young Kochi girl's tragic death.Afghanistan, 1970s. Born to an American mother...

A novel by Pankaj Mishra, author of RUN AND HIDE and AGE OF ANGERWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION1989. In the holy city of...

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. You want a home. You want to win back...

From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of...

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel — a poignant and compelling novel in which the former...

The new novel about the present, the past, and the slippage between private and public life — from a writer who has 'like Proust, mastered the art of the moment.'...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother. He...

Welcome to the Repertory Apartments — where scenes of tenderness and trouble, music and magic, the uncanny and the macabre play out on intimate stages. A mother and her young...

'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them'At the end of the...

This story came to me and entered my soul. It did not need a key or an invite, for it already belonged. It walked in, shook my foundation and set...

From the bestselling author of Homegoingcomes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey...

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up...