Bestsellers

How slavery shaped Australia The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh...

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine'Magnificent' OBSERVER'Different to anything else being written right now in English' SUNDAY TIMES'A pretty flawless writer' THE TIMESAfter...

Baldwin's ground-breaking novel which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He...

A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose...

Translated by Polly Barton The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There...

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...

Some passions just can't be tamed ... Brynn thought she'd be chasing her dreams, not chasing dogs, when she set off on the adventure of a lifetime. When Bigambul woman...

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.Ghost Cities - inspired...

With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition...

In her unforgettable new novel, Victorian Premier's Literary Award-winner Melanie Cheng has created this year's literary masterpiece. 'How rare, this delicacy-this calm, sweet, desolated wisdom.' Helen Garner 'Stupendously good' Christos...

A gem-like parable about Palestine, timely and prismaticNabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can't bear...

A beautiful, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul. Winner of the 2016 Man Booker International Prize. WINNER...

An electrifying debut from a young Indian-Australian writer, The Degenerates brims with vitality and humour. Following the interwoven lives of four characters across India, Australia and the United States, the...

On Palestine and Narrative An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AND RSL ENCORE AWARD-WINNING...

A debut linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico. Life's a bitch. That's why you gotta rattle her cage, even if she's foaming at the...

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide. Since the formation of the...

Mural is a testimony to one of the most important and powerful poets of our age. Mahmoud Darwish was the Palestinian national poet. One of the greatest poets of the last...

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the...

From the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Babel and Yellowface comes an all-new, fully illustrated, collector’s edition of R. F. Kuang’s debut novel, The Poppy War. Considered one of Time...

A riveting dark academia fantasy about the limits of truth and power, from the author of The Sword of Kaigen.TRUTH OVER DELUSIONFor twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Final Strife, comes an enchanting new trilogy. DIVIDED BY BLOOD. IMPRISONED BY FATE. BOUND BY DESIRE. WELCOME TO THE INTOXICATING WORLD OF...

Welcome to a world where, livestreamed to millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize- their freedom.FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. FIGHT FOR LOVE. WELCOME TO THE KILLING GROUND.'America's new Hunger Games' Sunday Times'So...

A Family Story from Gaza The story of a family over the past 100 years, starting in Palestine under British rule and ending in Redland Bay in Queensland. Samah Sabawi...

*A PARADE, LITHUB, and CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS Best New Book. *An AUDIOFILE EARPHONES AWARD WINNER. Negotiating the terrain of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun and Emily St. John Mandel’s...

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unravelling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags,...

Jumaana Abdu is extraordinary and I will read everything she writes.HANNAH KENTAmid a series of personal disasters, Aliyah and her daughter, Sakina, retreat to rural New South Wales to make...

Jena Lin plays the violin. She was once a child prodigy and now uses sex to fill the void left by fame. She's struggling a little. Her professional life comprises...

A searing indictment of the media's failures in reporting Indigenous affairs - and a powerful corrective that shows how Black journalism can pave the way for equality and justice. From...

The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World There Are Rivers in the Sky is a rich, sweeping...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2024 From the Booker-shortlisted author of The Trees comes a heartbreaking and powerful retelling of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the perspective of Huck’s friend, the...

Stylish and open-hearted, this is a very different kind of love story, elevated and energised by being set in the world of creativity and video gaming This is the story...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING 'GOOD FOR HER' NOVEL My Sister, the Serial Killer meets Boy Parts, this literary feminist howl-of-a-debut is going to crawl right under your skin... Ji-won's life is in...

Peripathetic is an essay collection exploring globalised identities in flux. There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise – something new...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays...

Translated by Shanna Tan There was only one thing on her mind.'I must start a bookshop.' Yeongju did everything she was supposed to, go to university, marry a decent man,...

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...

An Economy of Gifts and Abundance From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, an inspiring vision of how to reorient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity and community'This book will...

Stories of Goori sovereignty from the futures of the Tweed In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question: what might country, community and culture look like...

Translated by Alison Watts THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable...

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting yearning that will not let them rest. A breakout, genre-blurring novel from one of the most...

'A truly monstrous romance' JULIA ARMFIELD, AUTHOR OF OUR WIVES UNDER THE SEA'Lesbian pulp meets literary horror' YAEL VAN DER WOUDEN, AUTHOR OF THE SAFEKEEP 'I've never read anything like it' TAMSYN MUIR, AUTHOR OF THE LOCKED...

Translated by Megan McDowell A delicious, diabolical collection of short stories, from the International Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night Mariana...

A tangled history of feminism’s complicity and resistance How did feminists end up turning to the police and the law to make them safe? Every week it seems there is...

Funny and touching, Behind You Is the Sea brings us into the homes and lives of three main families - the Baladis, the Salamehs, and the Ammars - Palestinian immigrants...

A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights. Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he...

A profound guide to existing on your own terms, the first trade book from renowned intersectional feminist scholar Sara Ahmed We have to keep saying it because they keep doing...

Translated by Sandy Joosun Lee || THE MAGICAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD || In a mysterious town hidden in our collective subconscious there's a department store...

A sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel that follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obsessed world where perfection comes at a staggering cost.Winner of the Lambda Literary Award in...