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In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a...

A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City--for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen...

'One of the most original and brilliant debuts in years' Irish Times An exhilarating and fiercely original story of brotherhood, war and art, set in ancient SicilyAncient Sicily. Enter GELON- visionary,...

AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020 'The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for. An explosive work that reels from sex, to sin, to salvation all the...

This collection speaks about beauty, activism, power and popular culture with compelling guile, a darkness, a deep understanding and sensuality. It dives through noir, whakama and kitsch and emerges dripping...

Love, Simon meets Friday Night Lights in this feel-good LGBTQ+ romance. Fifteen-year-old Spencer Harris is a proud nerd, an awesome big brother and a Messi-in-training. He's also transgender. After transitioning...

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

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...

A star showgirl must win a magician's competition riddled with danger in order to secure her freedom, even as a handsome magician distracts her heart, in this lush, unforgettable debut...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacologicalLove, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest,...

In a YA thriller that is Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying, students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best...

'There are times, though, that no matter how much food I eat, I find the food does nothing for me, like I am hungry for my country and nothing is...

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern...

How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three...

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...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist​Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in...

***WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2020*** 'Full of wit and soul.' — TRACY CHEVALIER'Unforgettable' — MARLON JAMES'It made me ugly cry' — JESSIE BURTON'Spellbinding' — ANDRE ACIMAN Meet...

A teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia Afer All, the hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by Racquel Marie. Ophelia...

Olivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds.‘There was no use googling...

A breathtaking debut poetry collection from black&write! fellowship winner Dakota Feirer. 'Where wisdom made me there's a ceremony groundpiling with dead leaves. So much, I lit a cultural fire by...

A sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow. When I look back, I realise everything I...

**Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times,independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95** 'Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain's brightest debut...

"'The women in this house are the same,' she said. 'When we love, we love with all of ourselves.'" Mai is navigating life in 90s London as a first generation...

Crazy Rich Asians meets Always Be My Maybe in this deliciously sugar-free rom-com from debut author Cynthia Timoti. She's salty, he's spice - there's no room for sugar in this...

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women. Arabella gets an unexpected...

A portrait of the artist as a young woman in a Berlin that can't escape its history - an electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her...

The Concubine, Elechi Amadi's most celebrated work of fiction, paints a picture of pre-colonial life in rural Eastern Nigeria and explores the boundary between myth and reality.Ihuoma is a woman...

The Hating Game meets Beach Read in this sexy and hilarious enemies-to-lovers romance from a debut Peruvian-Tennessean voice. Rosie Maxwell has a plan- move to New York, get her creative...

'A captivating epic fantasy from a major new talent' Anthony Ryan, author of BLOOD SONG 'Intense, inventive and action-packed from beginning to end - a relentlessly gripping, brilliant read' James Islington, author of THE...

Kalokalo, meaning stars in Vosa vakaViti, is Arieta Rika’s first published collection of poems, spanning themes of motherhood, romance, friendship, grief, anger, healing, love. Published by Rarama Ink in collaboration...

A young woman chosen as the crown prince's bride must travel to the royal palace to meet her new husband — but her world is shaken when she discovers the...

*ONE OF BUSTLE'S MOST ANTICIPATED SUMMER READS* Journalist and former Allure editor Sable Yong debuts with a sharp-toothed and hilarious essay collection about beauty and vanity, examining their stigmatization in the cultural...

'More than lives up to the hype' — Observer 'Set to become a publishing sensation' — Kirsty Lang, BBC Front Row 'An astounding achievement' — Sunday Times 'The lost giant...

'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' — Amitav Ghosh In the world of his large family — affluent Tamils living in Colombo — Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy'...

In Igboland, the lives of two Nigerian women change forever... In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures the endless...

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...

'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true' — Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous...

*Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* Meet Tariq Nader, leader of 'The Wolf Pack' at Punchbowl High, who has been commanded by the new principal to join a...

Mother. To three small children, their heritage dual like hers. Daughter. To a mother who immigrated to make a better life but has been rejected by her chosen country. Wife....

From an exciting new voice comes a funny and heartfelt YA romance set in the world of competitive gaming, perfect for fans of Opposite of Always and Slay. Emilia Romero...

A special Deluxe Edition of Adam Silvera's groundbreaking debut featuring an introduction by Angie Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give, a new final chapter, and...

From the winner of the SMH/Age Best Young Novelist of the Year and the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year. Growing up can feel like a death...

The debut collection from award-winning Somali British poet Warsan Shire, celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Lemonade and Black Is King.With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire introduces us to a...

An epic love story infused with West African mythology. For fans of The Gilded Ones, Children of Blood and Boneand Circe, this book is a powerful new imagining of a...

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

1950s Tehran. In an alleyway an abandoned baby cries into the night, attracting the attention of the young man who will save her. And so begins the story of Aria,...

'Funny, clever and keenly observed, Decadence is a profound musing on literature and language, that deftly skewers the would-be gatekeepers of verse. With this second collection, Thuy On has cemented...

Poet Omar Sakr's debut novel is a fierce and fantastic force that illuminates the bonds that bind families together as well as what can break them. An estranged father. An...

* 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...

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of The Friend, comes this mesmerising story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and...