Bestsellers

Each two-monthly cycle focuses on a region from our regional book boxes. So by the end of the 6 cycles, you’ll (ideally) have read a book from every continent. It’s...

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A monthly bookish meet up at Amplify 💚 Join us for a cosy and reflective evening in our reading room! Come ready to chat about our latest read and make...

This limited edition print is the perfect addition to any gallery wall.  Designed in Singapore by Jing Tong Teo. Available in A5. Printed in Naarm with Sustainable Printing Co.

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human....

An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith In this keenly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her...

Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?Sydney, May 2021. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a...

The scorching, much-anticipated new book from the winner of the 2022 Stella Prize for DropbearThe Rot is a recalcitrant study of the decaying romances, expired hopes and abject injustices of the world....

'The marker you should judge all other time-travelling narratives by' — GUARDIAN Octavia E. Butler's ground-breaking masterpiece, with an original foreword by Ayobami Adebayo. In 1976, Dana dreams of being...

Notes from the Genocide in Gaza A powerful eyewitness account of the genocide in Gaza by an extraordinary young writer and general physician Five days before 7 October 2023 a young...

A book box, curated just for you! A bundle of 3 books by BIPOC authors curated by us, based on your tastes. Just fill in the form below and we'll...

Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018‘The best fantasy debut of 2018' — WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

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...

How slavery shaped Australia The story of Australia’s Black convicts has been all but erased from our history. In this deeply researched and illuminating book, Santilla Chingaipe offers a fresh...

It begins when two immortals meet in an African forest. Doro is an ancient spirit who, for thousands of years, has cultivated a small village of people in search of...

An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal. Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the...

The perfect companion for your reading 💚  If you've been looking to go analogue with your reading tracker but forget to carry around a notebook for your thoughts, this is...

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero's descent to the underworld. Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the...

Essays on Memory In this collection of new essays from the Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist, First Nations writers and writers of colour bend and shift boundaries, query...

A furious and beautiful book from an internationally bestselling author of formidable standing — on sex and power, persecution and resistance Winner of the Palestine Book Award Nahr has been...

Translated by Elisabeth Jaquette From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as...

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love...

THIS IS ONE HELL OF A STORY.IT’S JUST NOT HERS TO TELL.When failed writer June Hayward witnesses her rival Athena Liu die in a freak accident, she sees her opportunity…...

The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race, Korean food, losing her Korean mother, and forging her...

From the award winning author of Ash comes a gripping story of love and duty set in San Francisco's Chinatown during the 1950s. Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can't remember exactly when...

A groundbreaking exploration of gender and desire from the Pulitzer Prize–winning essayist and critic With a New Afterword by the Author ABA IndieBound Bestseller “Everyone is female, and everyone hates...

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its...

Diversifying your bookshelf is hard, especially when you don’t know where to start. Luckily, we’ve got you covered with our Regional Book Boxes. Simply select a region you’d like to...

A woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine'Magnificent' OBSERVER'Different to anything else being written right now in English' SUNDAY TIMES'A pretty flawless writer' THE TIMESAfter...

Notes From the Women That White Feminists Forgot I'm a feminist. Mostly.I'm an asshole. Mostly. All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the...

Baldwin's ground-breaking novel which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancee to return from...

Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan and a list. After almost — but not quite — dying, she's come up with seven directives...

SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN. Filled with mystery and Southern Black Girl Magic, Tracy Deonn’s New York Times bestselling Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with...

This first EARTHSEED novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid’s Tale, you'll love this...

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...

Instant New York Times No.1 Bestseller I have no faith in love. Love cannot save me. I choose vengeance. The boys of Huaxia dream of the celebrity status that comes with...

HUGO AWARDWINNER FOR FOR BEST NOVEL 2022 THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER An absorbing historical fantasy, She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan reimagines the rise to power...

An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family ‘What is the task but to find my way back to the unfragmentation of the world as we knew it; to collect the uncollected,...

Translated by Jim Rion A Japanese mystery bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensation Uketsu. A series...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A city seethes with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires in this masterpiece of contemporary Gothic. Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of...

One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess searching for her family. Together, they will change the fate of an...

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is a hilarious and irresistible take on race, class and identity. The sudden death of Not Sidney Poitier’s mother orphans him at age eleven. He...

A moving testament to the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinian people. rock flight is a book-length poem that, over five chapters, follows a personal and historical narrative, to compose...

Translated by Polly Barton The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There...

An epic and emotional story of three spirited women - a mother, her daughter, their maid - during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1941. The wealthy Tang family has...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A NEW NAME TO WATCH OUT FOR' THE TIMES 'THE DEBUT OF THE YEAR' STYLIST 'ELECTRIC' GUARDIAN Nadia is an academic who's been dumped by her...

The Trinity of Fundamentals follows the story of 22-year-old Kan’an during his nine years of hiding from the occupation between 1982 and 1991. Driven by an unshakable commitment to the Palestinian...

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.Ghost Cities - inspired...

Diversifying your bookshelf is hard, especially when you don’t know where to start. Luckily, we’ve got you covered with our Regional Book Boxes. Simply select a region you’d like to...