Bestsellers

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024A mesmerising reversal of the east-west immigrant narrative set against China's economic boom, River East, River West is a deeply moving exploration of...

A riveting, poetic and unrelentingly powerful work from the author of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize-winning novel The Vegetarian. Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed...

Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are...

The new novel from the two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award One of the most anticipated literary releases of the year, this gripping novel changes the game on...

Translated by Bonnie Huie * Winner of the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize* Longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize* A New York Times Editors' Choice The English-language premiere of Qiu...

Translated by Pablo Strauss SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE An internationally-bestselling, and multi-award-winning, tale of impossible love and family secrets in late-twentieth century Egypt. Cairo, 1980s. Tarek's whole life is...

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani **Winner of The Yomiuri Prize for Literature, 2012** The Japanese novel comes of age in this gripping story of love, art and life as a group...

A lost classic of African literature - an engrossing political thriller and a turbulent tale of love and war. "Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down" Maaza Mengiste,...

Translated by Sora Kim-Russell How friendship, European literature, and a charismatic professor defy war, oppression, and the absurd Set in 1980s South Korea amid the tremors of political revolution, I'll...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out...

A novel by Pankaj Mishra, author of RUN AND HIDE and AGE OF ANGER WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTION 1989. In the holy...

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...

South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive...

A searing novel about a mother and son's fight for survival from the New York Times bestselling author'A powerful book' Marilynne Robinson'A book to be read and re-read' Jesmyn Ward'Poetic and fierce'...

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the...

THE REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK FOR MARCH 2024 It's 1985 and Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City. Thirteen years later, art...

A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community — and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of Black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Zala Spencer is...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023  In a scorching story of music, passion and self-discovery, love will set Yamaye free... It's time to dance, to love, to be free...'Mesmerising' BERNARDINE EVARISTO,...

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,...

‘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...

In the heart-aching new novel from the author of the award-winning Golden Child, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago. Trinidad, 1980: Dawn Bishop, aged...

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 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...

What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known? Summer, 1987. On the sweltering streets of the dying New England mill town of Swift...

Winner of the Yomiuri Prize and recipient of the 2022-23 William F. Sibley Memorial Subvention Award for Japanese Translation. Introducing Tatsuhiko Shibusawa—Japan’s Italo Calvino—in this fantastical tale of a Japanese...

'With the sharp and delectable music of its dialect, the book grabs you by its teeth from the first page and never quite lets go . . . This is...

A stunning, deeply moving autobiographical novel about growing up in Beijing in the 1970s and 80s and taking part in the Tiananmen Square protests. It is Beijing in the 1970s,...

An exhilarating, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia’s socialist revolution Wisecracking, inquisitive, and bombastic,...

For anyone who has ever felt like they don't belong, Sigh, Gone is an irreverent, funny, and moving memoir of assimilation woven together with poignant themes from works of classic...

Amrith comes to terms with his sexuality in this sweeping coming-of-age story set against the stormy backdrop of monsoon season in 1980s Sri Lanka. For fans of Call Me By...

A “beautifully written, poignant exploration of family, art, culture, immigration…and love” (Jean Kwok, author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation) set against the backdrop of China’s Cultural...

A major literary event — the eagerly anticipated publication of a long-lost novel from legendary writer and three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee John Oliver Killens, hailed as the founding father of...

At eighteen years old, Dinah gave away her baby son to the rich couple she worked for before they left Jamaica. They never returned. She never forgot him. Eighteen years...

Rule Number One: Family is Everything. New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s. Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets...

Beatriz dreams of a life spent dancing — until tragedy on the day of her quinceanera changes everything. Up until her fifteenth birthday, the most important thing in the world...

A furious, blistering, deeply tender novel about family, violence and the hope of redemption, set against the vivid backdrop of 80s Manchester Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once...

Sent from London to New York to bring a dying friend’s message to his daughter, Mary, Sam Dean arrives in Queens, steeped in a mesh of Caribbean and Hispanic culture,...

A gripping, tense thriller guaranteed to keep you up all night… In 1980s London, Black political leaders who can straddle the racial divide are a rarity. So when a rising...

Behind the scenes of television production journalist-turned-investigator, Sam Dean, discovers greed, ugliness and murder. When a TV producer offers journalist Sam Dean the job of tracking down a suspect in...

A gripping new thriller from the master of crime… In the 1980s, London is a melting pot of cultures, but race and class create sharp divisions. Black British journalist Sam...

Two girls’ lives are irrevocably intertwined the summer of 1985 in the streets of Brooklyn, New York, and neither will ever be the same in this coming-of-age story that spans...

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban Revolution and, finally, the fall of the Berlin Wall in this sweeping...