2022 Releases

The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and acclaimed author of Negroland boldly and brilliantly fuses cultural analysis and memoir to probe race, class, family and art. Taking in the jazz and blues...

In the dystopian world of Mafinga, Jasmin must contend with a dictator’s sorcerer to cleanse the socialist state of its deadly pollution. Mafinga's malevolent king dislikes books and, together with...

A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent forces in this brilliant novel of horror and the supernatural from the award-winning pioneer of speculative...

A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures and the uncanny.In his sharply crafted, unnerving first collection...

In this powerful and timely novel, Megan Giddings explores the limits women face - and the powers they have to transgress and transcend them. Josephine Thomas has heard every conceivable...

How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain The groundbreaking bestseller which examines the effect of empire on modern Britain In Britain, imperialism is everywhere — though we often choose not to...

A captivating novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved'Extravagantly beautiful... Enormously, achingly alive... A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter' New York TimesAs...

A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect Worldof Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. When Shouji Arai crosses one...

A thrilling paranormal mystery about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, following the brutal murder of their parents, perfect for fans of The Vanishing Half Magnolia Heathwood, heiress to a...

A novel by Man Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri about life in the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade, which restores a lost history to the...

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people — from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction Sometimes...

Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman A call to South Asian women to question everything they’ve been taught about self-love. Part memoir, part guide, Burning My Roti is essential...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...

Translated by Giles Murray The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the...

Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Trust is a sweeping, unpredictable novel about power, wealth and truth, set against the backdrop of turbulent 1920s New York. Perfect for...

An Untold History A Guardian Best Book of 2020 Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of African descent, from Saint Maurice who became the leader of...

Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere...

There is one every generation, a seer who keeps the stories. Luz "Little Light" Lopez, a tea leaf reader and laundress, is left to fend for herself after her older...

A Global History from Socrates to Social Media A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock...

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to...

Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't really...

In the “thrilling…masterful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) conclusion to the Wings of Ebony duology, which #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicole Yoon calls “bold, inventive, big-hearted, and deeply perceptive,”...

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH. A KILLER IN SEARCH OF RETRIBUTION. A CLASH BETWEEN CULTURE AND DUTY. THE PAST NEVER TRULY STAYS BURIED. WELCOME TO THE DARK SIDE...

It’s a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. How does a self-described ‘skinny Aboriginal kid’ overcome a legacy of family tragedy to become an AFL legend? One...

In this raw, searingly honest debut young adult novel, a former aspiring ballerina must confront her past in order to move forward from a devastating fall that leaves her without...

From New York Times bestselling author Laura Taylor Namey comes a “lyrical and tender, authentic” (Kirkus Reviews) novel about friendship and the bittersweetness of growing up and growing apart. When...

Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship...

Murder. Secrets. Sacrifice. Anoor is the first blue-blooded ruler of the Wardens’ Empire. When she is accused of a murder she didn’t commit, she must solve the mystery to save...

The empire is ruled by blood: red-blooded Embers, blue-blooded Dusters and clear-blooded Ghostings. All will be shed in the coming battle for power. The Aktibar – a set of trials...

Sisters, beware the 'Wasteman of Whitewell' . . . As host of radio show Brown Sugar, Kiki Banjo's mission is to protect her listeners from heartbreak. Which puts Whitewell College's...

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...

The Story of Tencent and China s Tech Ambition In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment,...

A First Nations Elder shares his extraordinary story of finding kindness in the midst of prejudice, and joy in living life to the full 'Welcome to my story. It's a...

On the choices of being a woman Part memoir and reflective analysis, Pragya Agarwal examines motherhood and fertility and how it shapes all our lives. In a world where women...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the...

THE THING IS . . . WHO DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GAIN BY HAVING A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM? ALL THAT MONEY? HE DREW US ALL IN LIKE BEES TO...

Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if the majority of people will be disabled in the near...

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...

'These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place,' the voice of the Chairman said. 'I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly...

*Longlisted for the Jhalak Prize* *Longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize*A breathtaking collection of stories about our most intimate relationships, and the secrets, misunderstandings and silences that haunt them. A...

The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake is the runaway TikTok must-read fantasy novel of the year. If you loved Ninth House and A Deadly Education, you’ll love this.Originally a self-published...

Two teen vigilantes set off on an action-packed investigation to expose corruption and deliver justice in this YA historical fiction novel inspired by real seventeenth century Latinx teenagers. By day...

A pitch perfect encapsulation of one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER...

The stunning Sunday Times bestseller that will transform the way you perceive the world — from Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes. **SUNDAY TIMES and NEW...

On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural...

A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic — a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over...

South African Poems of DecolonisationA unique anthology containing over five decades of protest poetry.‘'i may have been born on 27 April 1994 — but i was never born free.' Mjiele...

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl —...

One woman’s escape from North Korea The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. North Korea is an open-air prison...

For readers of Damon Galgut, Brandon Taylor, and J M Coetzee, an atmospheric story of love and violence in rural Pakistan from an exceptional new literary voice On the train...