Bestsellers

A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New StatesmanI would never have chosen this path, but I am...

 A NEW EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEEL MUKHERJEEThe international bestseller from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author'Ghosh has established himself as one of the finest prose writers of his generation' Financial...

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...

"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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION AND THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEIn Canada in 1991, ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home. Ai- Ming has fled...

A beloved and bestselling classic in Japan, this groundbreaking tale of a dead soul who gets a second chance is perfect for readers of The Midnight Library. "Congratulations, you've won...

Black Britain: Writing BackA sensational, original art heist thriller about the high stakes theft of a priceless African artefact and its dark consequencesUniversity lecturer Gus knows that stealing the priceless...

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...

The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race Set amid the civil rights movement, the never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who...

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

Plains of Promise is a masterful novel from the only writer to have won both the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize.In the 1950s Gulf Country of Queensland's...

The classic Japanese bestseller published in English for the very first time - a darkly funny and relatable book portraying the lives of five women 'Witty, wise and thought-provoking' Cecelia...

Join a young Ghanaian woman on her journey into Europe's heart of whiteness to meet the natives in this iconoclastic modern classic.'A treasure: one of the works that inspired my...

This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize for New Fiction Enter a whole new world, in this thrilling debut novel set entirely within a...

An artist, a cop, a cowboy, several fly fishermen and even a reluctant romance novelist inhabit these revealing and often hilarious stories. An old man ends up in a high-speed...

A strikingly original first novel, from the author of A Little Life. ‘The world Yanagihara conjures up, full of dark pockets of mystery, is magical.’ – The Times  In 1950 Norton Perina, a...

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure...

'One of the towering figures of the [B]lack literary tradition.' — Henry Louis Gates, Jr The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when...

A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community — and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of Black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Zala Spencer is...

Te Kaihau | The Windeater was launched at the inaugural New Zealand Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week in March 1986, four months after The Bone People won the 1985...

Over 50 years in print! Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera and also classic New Zealand literature. First published in 1972, it was Witi's first book, which as he says in...

Translated by Chi-Young Kim WINNER OF THE MAN ASIAN LITERARY PRIZE When sixty-nine-year-old So-nyo is separated from her husband among the crowds of the Seoul subway station, her family begins...

A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant familiesThe novella and five stories that make up...

A classic memoir set during the Chinese revolution of the 1940s and inspired by folklore, providing a unique insight into the life of an immigrant in America. Throughout her childhood,...

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie...

Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow...

A story of a marriage, Jamaica Kincaid’s most recent novel is one of her most emotionally and thematically daring works. ‘If revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is...

With a new introduction by Robert Jones, Jr, author of The New York Times bestselling novel, The Prophets 'Gloria Naylor is a brilliant word-worker and a breathtaking story-teller. Mama Day is her masterpiece' Tayari Jones...

'When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have agreed to put off...

The masterful, Pulitzer Prize-winning literary epic about the painful and complex realities of slave life on a Southern plantation. An utterly original exploration of race, trust and the cruel truths...

Amy Tan's bestselling classic novel of mothers and daughters.Four Chinese women, four America daughters - can they learn to understand each other?In 1949 a group of Chinese women, recent immigrants...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship,...

In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black...

A tale of passion and romance between a Japanese schoolteacher and a doglike man, from the prize-winning author of The Last Children of Tokyo Mitsuko, a schoolteacher at the Kitamura...

Mourning a Breast was heralded as the first Chinese-language book to cast off the stigma of writing about illness and to expose the myths associated with breast cancer In 1989, the...

Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Zach Wells is a perpetually dissatisfied geologist-slash-paleobiologist. Expert in a very narrow area – the geological history of a cave forty-four metres...

‘Absorbing in its simplicity about bourgeois banality and the quest for expression’ NEW YORK TIMES  Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his...

Ogden Walker, deputy sheriff of a small New Mexico town, is on the trail of an old woman’s murderer. But at the crime scene, his are the only footprints leading...

A ground-breaking exploration of Britain's older Carribean community, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, OtherBarrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua,...

A memoir of politics and activism, from the bestselling and beloved author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal...

A memoir about motherhood and music from the bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK...

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.' So begins this stunning portrait of Vivian Baxter...

A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume of Maya Angelou's autobiography. The international classic and bestseller, Maya...

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize Salt is an extraordinary tour de force by one of the pre-eminent literary presences in the Caribbean, a novel which explores like none before it...

The 25th anniversary hardback edition of the stylish debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of...

A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights, sounds...

A powerful, radiant memoir from writer and academic Charlotte Williams exploring the intertwined history of Wales, Africa and the CaribbeanThe daughter of a white Welsh-speaking mother and a Black father...

Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth - a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War.It's...

Journey between the land of the Living and the spirit world in this magical Booker Prize-winning novel'So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as...