2025 releases

A unique amalgamation of an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age tale of identity and sisterly-love with supernatural influences set in modern metropolitan SingaporeGrowing up was never meant to be easy for Michelle Tan....

From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, this piercing, genre-bending debut follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war in a stunning exploration of...

Olivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds.‘There was no use googling...

In this hilarious and heartfelt debut graphic novel, a girl born on a day considered unlucky in Chinese superstition starts to wonder if she really is cursed when she’s troubled...

The first in a sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy brimming with morally ambiguous characters, terrifying ghouls and deadly monsters. Combining cut-throat dynastic politics with expansive worldbuilding and slow-burning romance,...

Translated by Yuka Maeno There is a small cafe in Tokyo where something unusual is brewing... Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought she and her boyfriend were in...

The Other Wife is a bold debut about race and class, love and nostalgia and learning to live with the life we have chosen Susan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty....

From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling - a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town When...

The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined...

The wildness and alienation of our contemporary anxieties - diagnoses, spiritualities, memes and mythologies - bring complexity and vitality to this impressive debut. The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick,...

Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st a new amateur sleuth exploring the landscape—both physical and virtual—of New York in a debut novel about love, technology, and murder. Claudia Lin...

Heat rises and sparks fly when a surf-town author and an intimacy coordinator are thrown together to write new, steamy sex scenes for a TV series based on her hit...

Debut author Molly Olgun brings us The Sea Gives Up the Dead, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild...

The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife. We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with...

A breathtaking debut poetry collection from black&write! fellowship winner Dakota Feirer. 'Where wisdom made me there's a ceremony groundpiling with dead leaves. So much, I lit a cultural fire by...

A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs,...

A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for...

A sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow. When I look back, I realise everything I...

'A short, powerful and joyously life-affirming novel.' Red Magazine 'A wry meditation on grief, healing, and reclaiming one's identity.' TIME Magazine 'A stand-out and must-read debut... Every paragraph is perfect'...

A beautifully crafted, enriching saga inspired by East Asian mythology, The Melancholy of Untold History is Minsoo Kang’s debut novel, steeped in history like R.F. Kuang’s Babel, epic in scope...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of...

**Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times,independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95** 'Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain's brightest debut...

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity. Luckily, Edward...

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago. In 1960s...

Inspired by true stories from the authors' grandparents' lives during one of the darkest periods in Korean history, The Last Tiger is a debut young adult fantasy novel about the...

For lovers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Cruz comes this extraordinary debut novel from Uruguayan-Australian author Natalia Figueroa Barroso. The power of Hailstones Fell without Rain lies in its pacy,...

A gritty, voice-driven debut thriller about a man returning home from prison to try to save his family’s shop from vicious poachers, set in the streets and swamps of today’s...

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Lynn Painter, this sexy and fun YA-rom com stars a seventeen-year-old girl convinces the resident bad boy to sign a love contract and...

A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and...

Culture critic Jeremy Gordon makes his literary debut with this whip-smart novel about a young man who learns the devastating truth behind his friend's death, propelling him on an odyssey...

A richly-told debut of mothers, daughters and family secrets from the BBC journalist What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his...

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell...

The unmissable debut novel May 1998- Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day's travelling left before they...

Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward's stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies. A darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin...

An unforgettable story of survival, sisterhood, and the fight for a brighter future. In 1970s Brazil, two teenage sisters are thrust into a chaotic world. Fear and hunger stalk them...

A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher. A moving coming-of-age-novel from a...

A sweeping historical love story that brings Torres Straight Islander culture to life. For readers of Anita Heiss. A sweeping, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant story of the life of a...

A statement to the profound loneliness available to only those who commit to loveSingapore, where driven foreign women have a hard time finding work- a Harvard-educated mother struggles to find...

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule reveals how the collective power of ordinary people is under attack We live under minority rule. But who are the...

An Observer Best Debut Novel 2024 An urgent debut set in multicultural London which takes the reader on a frightening journey into online radicalisation David hates school, where he has...

A fresh and taboo-breaking depiction of the Indian diaspora, for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri, Avni Doshi and Claire Kilroy Lina never wanted children, but now there are two lines on...

An Observer Best Debut Novel 2025 A debut novel bursting its banks with wondrous storytelling, for fans of David Mitchell, Sunjeev Suhota and Yaa Gyasi 'A writer we will be...

"'The women in this house are the same,' she said. 'When we love, we love with all of ourselves.'" Mai is navigating life in 90s London as a first generation...

'An incredible debut' ROXANE GAY 'Wise and wonderful' PAUL BEATTY Who would you sacrifice on the altar of ambition? Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living...

All Jay wants is to start again, to set himself up in a small, quiet town where no one knows him. Because here, no one will let him forget what they think he...

An epic and emotional story of three spirited women - a mother, her daughter, their maid - during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1941. The wealthy Tang family has...

A dragon queen, a vengeful sea witch, and a mythical titan converge on the underwater city of Tiankawi in this sequel to the no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling epic fantasy, Fathomfolk. A tsunami...

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling their families' histories―and eating all the...

A beginner's guide to building better money habits. Money makes the world go round, but what happens when you have none? Te Kahukura Boynton is Maori Millionaire, and her debut...