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An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar. Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one...

Basking in Singapore's non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream — until their carefully constructed lives are...

Translated by Caroline Froh It’s never too late to find happiness…. Mr Kato — a curmudgeon and recent retiree — finds his only solace during his daily walks, where he...

After their family encounters terrible hardship in rural China, siblings Fu and Pei must draw on all their resilience and courage as they embark on a dangerous journey towards a...

In a city swollen by refugees and bubbling with civil unrest, two young people fall in love. Their homeland is on the brink of war. One day soon they must...

Crazy Rich Asians meets The Devil Wears Prada, with a dash of Gossip Girl, in this dazzling debut novel. Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in...

Translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins From the author of Winter in Sokcho, which won the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature. The days are beginning to draw in. The...

Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family,...

Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.Zia secretly longs...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets. But now you know one of ours… Rules for being a maid:• No smoking•...

‘Hustlers’ meets Big Little Lies in the heist of the summer… Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life’s boxes. She’s married to a successful surgeon and has...

A darkly funny, sharply observed, and deeply moving novel about the surprises and struggles of life in contemporary Delhi Alif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in contemporary Delhi,...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori For fans of The Travelling Cat Chronicles and translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori, translator of Convenience Store Woman. On the outskirts of Tokyo, local cats...

A youth group's temple road trip through India is a liberating escape for a former mean girl and sunshine boy to explore their past and their feelings for each other...

Translated by Alan Turney In The Three-Cornered World, an artist leaves city life to wander in the mountains on a quest to stimulate his artistic endeavors. When he finds himself...

From the acclaimed author of Immigrant, Montana comes a one-of-a-kind novel about memory, politics, a world of lies, and the ways in which truth can be not only stranger than...

A glitteringly dark and unsettling debut novel set in the drinking dens and beauty salons of South KoreaIf I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary...

Translated by David BoydFish-breeding and weasel infestations punctuate this disarming, strange and strangely resonant story of one man's journey toward impending fatherhood, from an award-winning Japanese novelist.Two friends meet across...

On a year-long exchange programme, sixteen-year-old Hira must swap the bustle of urban Pakistan for church and volleyball practice in rural Oregon. Stuck between two worlds, her experience of America...