2023 releases

Quiet Fires, the debut poetry collection from andriniki mattis, queries the everpresent questions of Black lives. Be it in a bakery in Brixton, London, at a corner on Malcolm X...

“For a long time I wondered what English meant, if it was worth its weight in enlightenment.” - from Bolaño Blued Taylor Johnson’s debut poetry collection, Inheritance, explores the complexities and limitations...

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby's debut novel My Darkest Prayer is republished in a new edition, with a new introduction from the author. "I handle the...

A striking debut novel about racism on elite college campuses. Fans of Dear White People will embrace this activist-centred contemporary novel about a college freshman grappling with the challenges of...

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...

Flow is a debut collection of poems by Luoyang Chen published in collaboration with Centre for Stories and Red River Press in Delhi. Flow was developed and published as a...

Unmissable, uplifting debut fiction — a richly mythic love story set in the lush landscape of modern TrinidadDarwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city to seek his...

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...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'White peoples maybe mistreats you an'...

A gripping debut police procedural packed with suspense — and the technicolour energy and wit of Knives Out.The night before. Rupert's 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish...

The House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is...

Twin thieves attempt to pull off a daring heist in Stolen City, the sophomore fantasy novel from Dauntless author Elisa A. Bonnin. The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor...

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...

Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside — the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble...

Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists. A spellbinding romp, the Montrose women will have you clutching your pearls on this rollercoaster of a...

A bewitching and immersive Nigerian magic realist novel from an extraordinary literary voice, for fans of Chigozie Obioma, Abi Daré and Deepa AnapparaSoon you will become the thing all other...

In this gripping debut, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a perilous journey of self-discovery that ultimately forces her to confront the toll of a legacy of violence...

A big-hearted, beautifully written, utterly engaging novel about love, fear, second chances and the hardest shot in golf, from a sparkling new Australian voice. 'The albatross is just about the...

Fake-dates, mooncakes and rich people problems. But love wasn't meant to be on the menu . . .Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs...

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...

Vivian Walker is dying. This is not on her list of things to do. A darkly funny debut that proves even the most imperfect of lives is worth celebrating.Now that...

Grief is like an inside joke: you have to have been there to really get it. Everything Cassandra Rampersad knows about her family history has been overheard: whispered behind a...

Zhifu, China, 1882. Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped...

An unexpected act of violence brings together two families in this propulsive and sweeping story of love, identity and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three...

A debut brimful of the music and movement of multicultural London, to stand besides White Teeth, Brick Lane and The Buddha of Suburbia. Here, beneath the planes circling Heathrow, various...

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...

This haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small town — beautifully told by a debut Bribri (Indigenous Costa Rican) poet and storyteller — explores brotherhood, abuse,...

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...

Inspired by Korean history and myths, this rich and evocative high-stakes fantasy is perfect for fans of Gallant and Six Crimson Cranes. A crown princess.A monster the gods fear.A destiny...

Only she can face the Storm . . . Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. Since the Queen sentenced her mother to death by a deadly Storm...

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...

Translated by Emily North A hilarious Japanese debut novel, where a young woman, thoroughly fed up with gendered expectations at work, announces she's pregnant. She's not. Thirty-four-year-old Ms Shibata works...

Evocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the fleshEstranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin...

A brilliant young writer from India with a funny, moving debut that perfectly captures the perils of online culture Appa and Amma have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022, THE YOUNGEST EVER BOOKER NOMINEE 'Mottley attempts to do for Oakland something of what The Wire did for Baltimore' — The Times We'll laugh...

The conclusion to Ken Liu's chronicle of the Dandelion Dynasty, which sees two empires face a whirlwind that threatens to utterly consume them. Ukyu-Gonde. Stalked by foes and dogged by...

WIFE. HUSBAND. BEST FRIEND. What if your two favourite people hated each other with a passion? A nice house, a carefree life, a doting husband, a best friend who never...

A powerful novel concerned with how good people can end up doing terrible things during times of war and conflict. In Now I Am Here, we begin at the end....

The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul to the devil for powers. What I am has...

A poignant and powerful novel about a fire-obsessed Indigenous boy living on the margins — from an electrifying new First Nations voice in Australian fiction, Melanie Saward. When a tragic...

Sisters, beware the 'Wasteman of Whitewell' . . . As host of radio show Brown Sugar, Kiki Banjo's mission is to protect her listeners from heartbreak. Which puts Whitewell College's...

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...

Crazy Rich Asians meets The Devil Wears Prada, with a dash of Gossip Girl, in this dazzling debut novel. Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in...

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 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...

The 50th anniversary edition of this award-winning debut novel.First released 50 years ago, Tangi was Witi Ihimaera's debut novel and the first to be published by a Maori author. A...

A mesmerising debut novel of sapphic longing, intense obsession and fierce, defiant becoming — enthralling and visceral, this is an unforgettable vision of adolescence in all its horrific glory. Ren...

A dazzling, debut novel-within-a-novel in the vein of The Prophets and Memorial, about a young author writing about the secret love affair between E.M. Forster and Mohammed el Adl —...

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 realist novel about dating apps and unrequited online love, set in fast-moving, modern Shanghai In modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online...