Bestsellers

From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a...

Translated by Takami Nieda A 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...

Can Vivian find happiness after what has been done to her? To the outside observer, Vivian is a success story — a dedicated lawyer who advocates for mentally ill patients...

Three women. One life-changing friendship. One chance to stop it all falling apart . . . Jenna, Kees and Malak have been friends for years: the three of them together...

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...

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

THE BUNKER IS DESIGNED TO KEEP THEM ALL SAFE.In the end, very few people made it to the bunker. Now they wait there for the outside world to heal. Wolfe...

The first in a sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy brimming with morally ambiguous characters, terrifying ghouls and deadly monsters. Combining cut-throat dynastic politics with expansive worldbuilding and slow-burning romance,...

Debut author Molly Olgun brings us The Sea Gives Up the Dead, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild...

A Savage Turn is a searing debut from a Gamilaroi author. Using his biting wit and refreshing insight into modern and traditional life, Luke Patterson takes readers to forest billabongs,...

A debut poetry collection about reconciling with oneself and learning to love, through a youthful, queer diasporic Korean lens Lotus flowers, youthful hunger, and other temporary beauties intertwine to tell...

A sweeping historical love story that brings Torres Straight Islander culture to life. For readers of Anita Heiss. A sweeping, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant story of the life of a...

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule reveals how the collective power of ordinary people is under attack We live under minority rule. But who are the...

Winner of the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize ‘Reading Vuong is like watching a fish move: he manages the varied currents of English with muscled intuition.’ New Yorker An extraordinary...

Approaching the wrong person with open hands can be fatal. Seeking escape from their small-town existence, two teenagers impulsively drive north, with no particular place to go and no particular sense...

She's chosen her own future. Madras, India: The orphaned girls of St Ursulas convent are destined to be nuns or servants but seventeen-year-old Savi dreams of escape. Responsible and good with...

**Winner of the 2024 Dorothy Hewett Award** Time. Memory. Mirror. Past & Parallel Lives is a rippling reflection on being alien, queer, and other. These poems yearn for home and...

The debut collection of poetry by Gboyega Odubanjo. 'On 21 September 2001, the torso of a black boy was discovered in the River Thames, near Tower Bridge in central London,...

Ask the Brindled, selected by Rick Barot as a winner of the 2021 National Poetry Series, bares everything that breaks between “seed” and “summit” of a life—the body, a people,...

Don’t look back. Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? In this brilliant portrait of rage and resilience, a Korean woman tries to connect with her...

In this debut novel, Kofi Awoonor brilliantly interweaves poetry and allegory into a profound tale of social corruption in post-colonial Ghana. This Earth, My Brother explores how a man can become a...

The much-anticipated debut collection by the winner of the Outspoken Performance Poetry Prize- a tender meditation on queerness and Islam'Dissolving whatever boundaries would wall us off from love, Ahsan finds...

So-called Australia is built upon a lie: that 97% of the population are human, and the others simply 'Indigenous', devoid of the same basic rights.  Human? is the story of...

In his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and...

The debut collection of poetry from a virtuosic, compassionate new voice. “In Auguries of a Minor God, her outstanding debut collection, Eipe sings of joys and wounds felt deeply under...

From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry...

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...

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....

*ONE OF TEEN VOGUE'S '25 BOOKS BY BLACK AUTHORS THEY CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS YEAR'* Ghanaian-American Angela Appiah has checked off all the boxes for the 'Perfect Immigrant Daughter':...

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. Butler We are a people who do not forget. Survivors...

A virtuosic poetry debut on reinvention and rebuilding the self; on pain and triumph; on storytelling as survival This is a book about survival. This is a book about love....

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

Set in Uganda in 1972, an extraordinarily moving debut that tells the story of one family’s escape, when Amin forces them to leave: a story of loss and separation, but...

‘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...

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly...

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...

The breakout poetry collection by Sunday Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman'This is poetry rippling with communal recognition and empathy' Guardian'This is more than protest.It's a promise.'Including 'The Hill We Climb,' the...

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...

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Hilarious, honest and heartbreaking, MAAME is the most moving debut - and a heroine you'll never forget. Maame (ma-meh) has many meanings in Twi, but...

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...

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...

A PICKPOCKET WITH AN EXCEPTIONAL GIFT A PRISONER OF EXTRAORDINARY VALUE AN ORPHAN HAUNTED BY DREAMS OF THE MYSTERIOUS DARK LADY Henry is an orphan, an outsider, a thief. He...

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his city and save his mother’s life. Prepare to enter...

A searing, sunlit debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American family Three young brothers leave Los Angeles in the dead of night for Iran, taken by...

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...

Food That Tastes Like Home An homage to what it means to be Korean American with delectable recipes that explore how new culinary traditions can be forged to honor both...

A stunning collection of stories that weaves Hawaiian mythology with a vivid fabulism and rich sense of place. In Hawaii, a cast of women reckon with physical and emotional alienation,...

A darkly comic, boundary-pushing debut following an adrift Pakistani translator in London who attends a mysterious language school that boasts complete fluency in just ten days, but at a secret,...

THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Black Swan meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in...