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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...

New translation by Robin Buss, with chronology, further reading, explanatory notes. Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius...

Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world...

The Murder In the Gare do Oriente, a body sits, slumped, in a stationary train. A high-profile man appears to have died by throwing himself repeatedly against the glass. But...

*An Evening Standard Must Read for 2021* From the acclaimed author of ESCAPE ROUTES, a bittersweet story of coming-of-age in a divided world, in the tradition of TIN MAN or...

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....

A dazzling and wonderful fantasy stand alone romance from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi! Would you sacrifice the love in your heart to save your soul mate? A...

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMESAn extraordinary story of the journey of one young...

An exhilarating tale of one remarkable woman’s journey to find her purpose, and herself, in post-war America. Hailed as ‘whip smart’ by Australian Women’s Weekly. New York, 1954. A Fifth...

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...

Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis An investigation into the failings of Australia's mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother daughter relationship Journalist Elfy Scott grew...

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...

From the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright behind IN THE HEIGHTS comes a spellbinding coming-of-age story, and a vibrant and life-affirming celebration of the women who guide us. Born in Philadelphia to...

Longlisted for the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize An exhilarating, addictive take on obsession, race, gender and power dynamics through the lens of a...

Minbak tells the story of three generations of Korean women, forced to live in one room when they open up their home in London as a guesthouse, and the secrets...

From the internationally bestselling author of Firekeeper's Daughter comes an explosive story about seeking justice for a past that won't let you go. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Smith is on the run....

A hand-stitched seascape of words and images from an award-winning writer. I lay strips of pale peach cotton and cloud-printed cloth side by side.Each becomes a strange, asymmetric quilt block.Each...

From the acclaimed author of The Deep Sky and The Stardust Grail comes the tender and gripping tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation....

A family memoir that retraces the love story between the author's Palestinian father and Italian mother. WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak'A...

A new, powerful discussion of race, identity and political polarisation through the lens of the mixed-race experience The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room...

A beautiful, vibrant and surprising memoir about love, desire and marriage . . . one question at a time. In the early hours of dawn in Amsterdam, Deepa Paul rises...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the conflicting social interactions that make up our...

In this fiercely imaginative Filipino-inspired fantasy debut, a bisexual nun hiding a goddess-given gift is unwillingly transformed into a lightning rod for her people's struggle against colonization. Perfect for fans...

HAMMAJANG | adjective. Definition: In a disorderly or chaotic state; messed up. Chiefly in predicative use, esp. in all hammajang. Etymology: A borrowing from Hawaiian Pidgin. Source: Oxford English Dictionary....

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her...

One of Australia’s most important novelists writes about the experience of old age. Abraham Quin is in his mid-seventies, a migrant, thrice-divorced, a one-time postman and professor, a writer now...

A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean....

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it works out?'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS'A stunner of a debut' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'Hilarious, heart-rending, grotesque, delightful, utterly brilliant' DAISY JOHNSON'Exhilaratingly...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, THE DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND THE ATLANTIC Sicily, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father, a successful author....

The Big Fat Brown Bitch runs, sleeps, cries, laughs, splits open. She is sitting in a garage in South Auckland with her two brothers and discussing the majestic architecture of...

The Art of Productive Disagreement Why Are We Yelling is the essential book about how to turn arguments into a productive and enjoyable dialogue rather than a bad-natured confrontation. The...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad’s capital. Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. A fashionable, mixed-race boutique...

From the multi-award-winning author of Orangeboy, comes a YA road-trip mystery. I pick up the envelope . . . As I rip down the sides, there's loads of paper bursting...

WINNER — 2009 Deadly Award Outstanding Achievement in Literature SHORTLISTED — Australian Book Industry Association Biography of the Year SHORTLISTED — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Lorraine McGee-Sippel was a small...

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up...

The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible, threat. Maika Halfwolf is on the...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHES A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in...

How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World Me and White Supremacy shows readers how to dismantle the privilege within themselves so that they can stop (often...

From Kiran Millwood Hargrave, the bestselling author of The Mercies, The Dance Tree is a heart-stopping story of family secrets, forbidden love and women pushed to the edge. In Strasbourg,...

Black Britain: Writing Back A groundbreaking novel exploringthe intersection between race, class and mental health in the UK It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric...

DARKNESS FALLS. GODS RISE. The Four Realms — Life, Death, Light, and Darkness — all converge on the City of Dusk. For each realm there is a god, and for...

He’s tall, dark and infernal. She’s ready to be corrupted . . . Clara thought she had the rest of her life figured out. But when an unusual tourist –...

Drawing on a rich tapestry of historical analysis, literary criticism, and cultural theory, Hazel Carby interrogates how racial fictions have been constructed, maintained, and weaponized across centuries to justify systems...

A lyrical ode to the warmth, comfort, and traditions of tea drinking, from award-winning author Adib Khorram and Caldecott Honor and the APALA winner Hanna Cha Tea is a plant....

‘Exquisite and deeply felt’ VOGUE ‘Beautifully rendered’ GRAZIA ‘Magnificent … melds sharp insight with great heart’ NICOLA DINAN ‘Thoughtful and beautifully compelling’ ALICE WINN A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from...

'In the realm of Patricia Highsmith and Gone Girl' Chelsea Bieker 'A masterpiece' Carmen Maria Machado --- You want to know who did it, but that was never the question. Or,...

A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes.One of the most important writers to emerge from the...

Introducing a queer, fast-paced standalone cyberpunk adventure from the author of Hammajang Luck: a bored hacker is forced by vicious gangsters to take down a crooked politician . . . only...