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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...

Chinese history and mecha sci-fi combine in this dazzling YA retellingThe boys of Huaxia dream of the celebrity status that comes with piloting Chrysalises giant transforming robots that battle the...

** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller **Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the...

The brilliantly imaginative New York Times bestselling fantasy retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against the immersive backdrop of 1920s Shanghai.In glittering Shanghai, a monster awakens . . .A blood...

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....

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about...

As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman— a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author.It's winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North...

WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE'Breathtaking' — Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' — Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' — Daisy Johnson'Excellent' — Margaret AtwoodAn ex-boxer turned nail salon worker falls for...

In this hilarious comedy of manners set in Mumbai, where modernity jostles with tradition, Balli Kaur Jaswal'sErotic Stories for Punjabi Widows meets Kevin Kwan's Crazy Rich Asians. Zoya is not...

Danyal Jilani doesn't lack confidence. He may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he's funny, gorgeous, and going to make a great chef one day. His father...

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All TimeThe fall and rebirth of an empire. With a cast of hundreds and a world unlike any you have seen...

In a kingdom where flames hold magic and the desert hides secrets, an ancient prophecy comes for an assassin, a princess, and a king. But none are ready to face...

Inspired by an obscure Chinese custom and based on actual 21st century events, Srinath Adiga's debut novel is a current, chillingly dark satire in the mold of Brave New World...

Translated by Emily North A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works...

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...

A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess.THERE ARE MANY LEGENDS ABOUT MY MOTHER…Raised far away on the moon, Xingyin was unaware she was being...

ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 'TEN DEBUT NOVELISTS' OF 2021Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter — precocious, headstrong Alma —...

The first novel from the internationally bestselling, Booker-shortlisted author of The Garden of Evening Mists.LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEPenang, 1939. Being half Chinese and half English, Philip Hutton always felt...

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...

'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...

Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of...

Moving between two continents over a troubled century, We Are All Birds of Uganda is a multi-layered, moving and immensely resonant novel of generational love, loss and what it means...

‘Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you’ll never need to eat...

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu.Kuni Garu, now Emperor of Dara, confronts the challenges of supreme power: both from within and without.Dara...

Lakesong is a debut collection of poems by Lakshmi Kanchi (also known as SoulReserve) published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Featuring poems that...

Childhood best friends decide to marry in order to keep their sexuality a secret. A young heiress embarks on a secret affair, ending in devastation but not for the party...

* A New York Times Notable Book ** One of the Observer's 10 best debut novelists of 2020 ** Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020 *We children are not just...

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...

Translated by Takami NiedaA Zainichi Korean teen comes of age in Japan in this groundbreaking debut novel about prejudice and diaspora.Seventeen-year-old Ginny Park is about to get expelled from high...

A stunning debut young adult novel set in Malaysia, charting Aisha and her family on a road trip through the country in search of estranged sister, June. Set against the...

‘Nadia Niaz dances worlds into being. Hers is a rich and heady poetry, unafraid to play with form, spun for us across contrasting worlds, languages, time, customs. It’s a poetry...

Mia Kim's debut novel, set in ‘60s post-war Korea, is a harrowing story of Su-young's life with her aunt and her family. After a series of disastrous stays in various...

On the night of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a woman gives birth alone in a Beijing hospital. Years later, her daughter Liya travels from America to China with her mother's...

To discover the truth about his mother, Han must leave his village and venture to a group of islands which hold the answer to a long-held secret.Han was contemplative. Nothing...

'Do you know what it was like here? You wouldn't believe the glamour. We had our own film studio, redbrick houses for the stars, even Jackie Chan. Now look at...

In this thought-provoking and entertaining debut novel about of a multicultural family, a dying billionaire matriarch leaks news of her death early so she can examine her legacy-a decision that...

A rite-of-passage novel in the life of a young gay man growing up in a colourful and chaotic dictatorshipRiverrun is a novel that talks about the rite of passage in...

Flow is a debut collection of poems by Luoyang Chen published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Flow was developed and published as a...

A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

A searing, gritty debut crime novel with a resourceful and unforgettable heroine who must make her way in a man's worldBe twice as good as men and four times as...

Her destiny. His revenge. In an empire on the brink of war . . .Ahn is no one, with no past and no family.Altan is a lost heir, his future...

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...

StoriesPraised as “utterly remarkable” and “deeply resonant” by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Viet Thanh Nguyen and Robert Olen Butler, a bold and brilliant debut collection, in the vein of The Refugees,...

A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese AmericanAfter spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is as...

A playful, ambitious and action-packed novel that explores the turbulent story of twentieth-century Korea through the life of one remarkable, charismatic — and unreliable — womanSLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY....

This Hindu philosophy-inspired debut science fantasy follows a husband and wife racing to save their living city — and their troubled marriage — high above a jungle world besieged by...

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity from an award-winning historian, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith.1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky...

Yu-jin is gifted.Yu-jin is loved. Yu-jin is flourishing.Yu-jin is dead.Min Ford is searching for his place in the world. The Los Angeles native moves to Seoul to connect with his...

In her debut poetry collection Christine Shamista reflects on her experiences living in Sri Lanka, England and Australia as part of the Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. Shamista’s poems reveal layers...

An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways 'Heart-shatteringly...