2025 releases

'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People 'Just so brilliant' John Green Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856....

 'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into...

'I envy those about to discover Miracle at St. Anna for the first time' Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Searingly, soaringly beautiful' Baltimore Sun Towards the end of World War Two,...

The story of a northern village during the American War in Vietnam, where all the young men have left to fight, and the loved ones left behind labor through grief...

A story of love, loss, turbulence, and mended relationships narrated from the eyes of a young woman who traces her family history from to 1950s to the 2010s in Surabaya,...

A chance meeting with a witchdoctor changes a woman's fate leading to a miraculous pregnancy, but her unborn child is targeted by enemy shamansIn late-19th century Tana Toraja, Indonesia, Minah,...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori  The heartbreaking story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time. In the...

I was writing to her, so that she would know me not as this old person whose joints creaked when he rose from a chair, but as the real Pericles-...

1996, London. Nicola, tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it in the...

Inspired by the true story of Jamaica’s first serial killer. Jamaica, 1772. Caribbean jewel, or a killer's playground? On the island of Jamaica, people have started disappearing without trace. Have...

‘This powerful work cements Asgari as a vital voice in Australian literature’―Books + Publishing ‘Hossein Asgari’s Desolation speaks powerfully of the destructiveness of war and the hope that lies in fiction.’―The Conversation ‘You...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together,...

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A magnificent novel- beautiful, terrible, true _x2026_ It reads already like a classic' - Ali SmithShortlisted for the Baileys Women s Prize for...

'A richly woven novel ... The voice that guides us around this world darts with wit and lightness in a way that is unique and often lovely' - Rana Dasgupta, Guardian'The plot...

With a mother-daughter relationship at its heart, BITTER HONEY explores relationships, resilience, and what it means to fully wear your skin and carve your own space in this world. The first standalone...

From an award-winning historian of race, science and empire, a path-breaking and poignant history of extinction as a scientific idea, an imperial legacy and a political choice Anyone alive today...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title Siew Li leaves her husband and young...

While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister Isabel. And thus, Ines Camargo the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and...

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer **Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2025, Translation Prize** The witch hunt in Europe intensified between 1550 and 1650, decades after the Protestant Reformation and the Peasants' Revolt....

A chilling historical horror set in the American west in 1912 following a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation...

The bestselling author of The Bone Tree returns with an epic new novel set in Aotearoa in the 1940s. Muru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put your hands on...

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets 'A writer of...

WINNER OF THE AKUTAGAWA PRIZE In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Gottingen waits at the train station to meet...

Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. 'Back then, when I was a young...

'Riotously audacious and entertaining – cinematic, jazzlike, a humdinger of a novel' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'A maximalist epic that grabs you by the collar' THE STATESMAN 'A wild romp that ends...

The Hurston-Wright Award Finalist makes her long-awaited return with this electrifying saga—as moving and indelible as The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, The Turner House, and The Love Songs of W....

Acclaimed author Trisha R. Thomas delivers a masterful new tale of scandal and intuition. In 1950s oil-rich Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery, a dressmaker with the gift of “second sight,” reluctantly reveals the...

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...

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller from a fresh...

A gripping family saga about three generations fractured by secrets, and the three strong women who must bring them into the light. Ruth, the widowed matriarch of a grown family,...

Three people―two enslaved, one indentured―live beside each other, fighting, and sometimes failing, to be more than their pasts say they should be. 1690s, Tidewater, Virginia. Bless, born into slavery and...

Translated by Sylvia Lin Ph.D. and Howard Goldblatt After the Chinese Civil War, the Kuomintang imposed authoritarian rule on Taiwan in the name of anticommunism. The White Terror, as martial...

Translated by Max Weiss A heart-wrenching story about love, loss, sex, friendship between women, and the universal struggle to come to terms with death. Just before the outbreak of the...

A gripping debut gothic horror novel set in 1980s Philippines, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic 'One of the best horror books of the year.' Darcy Coates 'A stunning gothic...

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...

The New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Ways We Hide shines a light on shocking events surrounding Portland's dark history in this gripping novel...

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...

A hauntingly poetic family drama and coming-of-age story that reveals a dark corner of South Korean history through the eyes of a small community living in a reformatory center—a stunning...

A powerful debut that combines historical fiction with fantasy and explores themes of enslavement and empire. 'Powerful' Irenosen Okojie, author of Butterfly Fish The year is 1748. Elewa, known as ‘the...

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 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...

Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of LightMitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised...

Things change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that the new is better and stronger than the old. Anno Domini...

As the Sun sets on the age of virtue, the shadows gather for a final dance -The Mathuran Republic and Magadhan Empire are locked in mortal struggle, but they are...

'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled - Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' -...

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction comes a lush and imaginative novel full of gossip, art and intrigue All that is hidden will soon be revealed . ....

From International Booker Prize finalist Shokoofeh Azar, a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a passionate love affair. Spanning fifty years in the history...

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...