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Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018' — WIREDA brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth...

Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900’s Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steampunk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone awry....

Translated by Ken LiuAfter a spate of apparent suicides among elite scientists, nanotech engineer Wang Miao is asked to infiltrate a secretive cabal. During his investigation, Wang is inducted into...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for LiteratureThe inaugural winner of The Novel Prize, an international biennial award established by Giramondo (Australia), Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) and New Directions (USA)....

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

INNER OF THE 2021 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom 'My oshi was on fire. Word was he'd punched a fan'...

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s.More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian novel...

Winner of the 2022 Booker Prize; an epic, searing satire.A magical realism whodunnit set amid Sri Lanka's civil war. Now with added author content — a Map of Colombo as...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal.In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned...

Winner of the non-fiction prize in the 2011 WA Premier's Book AwardsShortlisted for the non-fiction prize in the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2012 Queensland Literary AwardsAt twenty-something,...

Translated by Tejaswini NiranjanaWinner of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, Jayant Kaikini is one of India's most celebrated...

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material — school bullies, depressed parents — but...

Translated by Ken LiuThe final installment of China's best-selling, award-winning apocalyptic space opera trilogy that ranges from the 1960s to the heat death of the Universe.Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed,...

She was never meant to be an ordinary woman, reading out her history as if it belonged to us. She was more than that. She was the way of learning...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Kiss Quotient comes a romantic novel about love that crosses international borders and all boundaries of the heart...Khai Diep has no feelings. Well,...

'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' — Amitav GhoshIn the world of his large family — affluent Tamils living in Colombo — Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who...

The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible, threat. Maika Halfwolf is on the...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

Winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin AwardA mesmerising literary novel, Questions of Travel charts two very different lives. Laura travels the world before returning to Sydney, where she works for...

Translated by Ken LiuAD 2201: Earth and the colonies of Mars attempt a reconciliation after a century-long Cold War. Can two mutually antagonistic cultures forget the past and embrace the...

He Who Drowned the World is the sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller She Who Became the Sun. What would you give to win the world? Zhu Yuanzhang, the Radiant...

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 voiceOn the train from...

The first ever publication of Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning novel outside of the PhilippinesThe story of Raymundo Mata, a visually impaired member of a 19th century anti-Spanish Philippine...

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBrideYeong-hye and her husband are...

The highly-anticipated new novel from the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Bonesetter's Daughter.On an ill-fated art expedition of the Southern Shan State in Burma, eleven Americans...

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth.From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture...

Translated by Ken Liu'This series will soon become a Netflix series... so get in on the ground floor while you still can' EsquireImagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless...

Shortlisted, DSC Prize For South Asian Literature, 2013 Longlisted, Man Asian Literary Award, 2011One hot afternoon in a remote Bangladeshi village, a telegram brings life-changing news to Maya Haque’s door....

Translated by Darryl SterkIf the mermaid doesn't swim back to the sea, but instead goes ashore, she will learn to walk on two legs. Perhaps, she will even learn to...

Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Award for the Eurasia regionThe Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...

Translated by Alison WattsOne dog changes the life of everyone who takes him in on his journey to reunite with his first owner in this inspiring tribute to the bond...