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An innovative collection of poetry and prose from a vibrant new Indigenous voice on the Australian literary scene. I told you this was a thirst so great it could carve...

A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance Shortlisted for the 2020 Cundill History Prize This is the story of Palestine told from the inside. The twentieth century for Palestine...

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the...

Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding...

Inspired by Mexican folklore, GODS OF JADE AND SHADOW is a magical, wildly imaginative coming-of-age tale for fans of Katherine Arden, Naomi Novik and Helene Wecker.The Jazz Age is in...

The acclaimed author of Gods of Jade and Shadow returns with a mesmerising feminist re-imagining of Gothic fantasy, in which a young socialite discovers the haunting secrets of a beautiful...

Winner of the 2019 Mary Higgins Clark AwardWinner of the 2019 Lefty Award for Best Historical NovelWinner of the the 2018 Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel'Perveen Mistry is a...

A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned...

Voted as one of the UK's best-loved books, Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses is a seminal piece of YA fiction; a true modern classic. Two young people are forced to...

The new novel from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning Australian author Alexis Wright. Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale...

The thrilling follow-up to the bestselling, award-winning novel The Marrow Thieves, about a dystopian world where the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow and...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THIS MOURNABLE BODY, ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 WOMEN FOR 2020 'UNFORGETTABLE' — Alice Walker 'A UNIQUE AND VALUABLE BOOK.' — Booklist Two...

A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Empireland 2.6 billion people are inhabitants of former...

Shortlisted for the Fiction category in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees, Moshe Fisher's provenance is a thing of myth and...

The new novel by Alexis Wright, whose previous novel Carpentaria won the Miles Franklin Award and four other major prizes including the ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award....

A wildly imaginative, page-turning collection featuring ghost stories, science fiction and satire, with Aboriginal characters at its heart. An imprisoned man with strange visions writes letters to his sister. A...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniserIn an ethnographic...

The second novel from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of This Mournable Body and Nervous Conditions continues Tambu's story.As Zimbabwe emerges into independence, Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her second year...

The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that...

An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country of Kenya Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is...

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...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century.Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French...

Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence Illuminating the First Nations struggles against the Canadian state, It's All about the Land exposes how racism underpins and shapes Indigenous-settler relationships. Renowned Kahnawà:ke...

Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker PrizeIn this tense and psychologically charged novel, Tsitsi Dangarembga channels the hope and potential of one young girl and a fledgling nation to lead us...

Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

The redoubtable Perveen Mistry makes her triumphant return to solve a shocking murder on the streets of 1920s Bombay November, 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of...

'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...

Ballet of the ForgottenA career-defining collection from one of America's most significant poetsRefractive Africa is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This...

Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Stella PrizeSparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, ‘The Four Dutchmen’, Mirandi...

Just this once . . . Please let me get away with it just this once . . . Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend...

Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with...

Crossfire is the long-awaited new novel in legendary author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses series — perfect for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and The Power.Thirty-four years have passed...

From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, this stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories exploring the inner...

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua — by the author of Annie John. If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will...

Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the...

One of the classics of Australian literature, Alexis Wright’s Miles Franklin award-winning novel is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg. Accompanies the April release ofPraiseworthy, Wright’s...

Being categorised as Black and female does not constrain my writing. Writing assures me that I am more than merely blackness and femaleness. Writing assures me I am.This paradigm shifting...

A Walk in the HimalayasIn this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are...

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

What do you need to know to prosper as a people for 65,000 years or more? The First Knowledges series provides a deep understanding of the expertise, wisdom and ingenuity...

Winner of the 2018 Stella Prize A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country,...

An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization How did disenchantment lead to climate change?  The States of the Earth argues that European empires have become secular as they were entering the...

Paris, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened...

A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A “breathtaking space opera” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government...

The Making of Nigeria from Jihad to AmalgamationWhat do you get when dare-devil Jihadists, mad English missionaries and proud, stubborn, warring natives meet in a clash? Nigeria.Formation: From Jihad to...

The powerful conclusion to iconic author Malorie Blackman's ground-breaking Noughts & Crosses — the series that taught a generation to think and act differently.Cross & Nought . . .Years have...

History, Conscience and Britain's EmpireAn award-winning intellectual reconsiders the role of historians in political debate and the legacy of the British EmpireFor generations, British thinkers told the history of an...

The delightfully clever Perveen Mistry, Bombay's first female lawyer, returns in an adventure of treacherous intrigues and suspicious deaths.India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri Mountains...

When he's not in church, at school or attempting to form 'Africa's first superheroes', he obsesses over mathematical theorems, ideas of Black power and HXVX- the Curse of Africa. Sure...