2023 releases

Joan Chang-Hunt has no idea she's part monster until she's thrust into a battle between the boy she has a crush on and one of the most ruthless monster families...

She found magic in the most unlikely of places. Mika Moon follows three rules: hide your magic, keep your head down, and stay away from other witches. Mika is good...

A faded list.Nine favourite stories.For two strangers, friendship is only a page away . . .When Mukesh Patel pops to the local library, forgoing his routine of grocery shopping and...

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...

A young woman reeling from a disastrous love affair finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine After years away from her family's homeland, and reeling from a disastrous love...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Brown Sisters trilogy, comes a laugh-out-loud YA novel about a quirky content creator and a clean-cut athlete testing their abilities to...

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...

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniA mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship, difference and what it means to belong, by a National Book Award-winning novelist.Welcome to the not-too-distant future. Japan, having vanished...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESThree friends. Three 'perfect' lives. Here comes TroubleRonke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open WaterThe one thing that can solve...

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 lot...

And the brass head of ObalufonYoruba gods liberating a Nigerian artefact from London's British Museum, this is a heist novel filled to the brim with magic.Shigidi is a disgruntled nightmare...

An unforgettable debut novel about first love, family obligation and finding your way.In the wake of first heartbreak, Nur somehow meets his perfect woman. Yasmina is bright, beautiful and, what’s...

The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spiesThe Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is...

An urgent exploration of how the gendering of emotions came about, and what we can do to change these damaging stereotypes, by award-winning behavioural and data scientist Dr Prayga AgarwalHow...

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...

From the internationally bestselling author ofExit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned...

How Men Came to RuleIn this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of...

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation.One night, not long after the last American...

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2023Bestselling author Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world — its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies...

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...

Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of TIME's Best YA books of all time and winner of the YA Book Prize 2022, gives Titanic an Ocean's 8 makeover in this nail-biting...

IF YOU COULD CHOOSE YOUR FAMILY... YOU WOULDN'T CHOOSE THE PENNINGTONS.Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't have anything in...

London, 1936Lena Aldridge is wondering if life has passed her by. The dazzling theatre career she hoped for hasn’t worked out. Instead, she’s stuck singing in a sticky-floored basement club...

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

A dazzling new novel of friendship, identity and the unknowability of other people — from the international bestselling author of Home Fire, winner of the Women's Prize for FictionSometimes it...

Interstellar Vehicle Archimedes has been hurtling through space for more than five generations, an oasis of heat and light in the middle of absolutely nowhere. But now the ageing starship...

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 against...

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves to tell their story —...

‘One of the most original and talented young writers we have.’ — Sathnam SangheraAn extraordinarily candid personal account of the ups and downs wrought by money, We Need To Talk...

A WHITE REVIEW BOOK OF THE YEARA LIT HUB BEST BOOK OF 2021Patrick Hamlin has come from New York to Hollywood to see his novel be adapted for the screen,...

You cannot create good without also creating evil.Zilan dreams of becoming a royal alchemist, of providing for her family by making alchemical gold and gems for the wealthy to eat...

The first new novel in a decade from the bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of BRICK LANETWO CULTURES. TWO FAMILIES. TWO PEOPLE. Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for:...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WATER RUNS OUT? THE WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF WATER. With supply in the Scottish cities drying up, Aida is forced back home to live with...

Racism, Medicine, and Why We Need to Decolonise HealthcareA vital, eye-opening exploration of race and healthIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are all too aware of the urgent...

A young cinephile leaves his rural village in India with big dreams, only to find himself trapped in menial jobs and forced to work off a debt he may never...

Natural histories of place, identity and homeReflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home. It is a...

Britain and the Aftermath of EmpireBritain didn't just put the empire back the way it had found it.Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated...

We are all a part of a culture that is broken – and nobody benefits from it. It’s in the news we read, the films we watch, the music we...

A fully illustrated, practical guide full of essential skills and knowledge that school didn’t prepare us for‘We all learned how to take tests at school, but then we went out...

An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent...

‘The reigning sex and relationship guru of Twitter’ — VOGUEAre you ready to have the best sex of your life?Oloni – Twitter’s famous sex and relationships educator – is on...

Why are our lives shaped by such limited ideas about beauty? How can we break free of them for a happier, more inclusive future?We've all had those moments. The ones...

Selina Nwulu reflects on being and Blackness in poems clear as a bell and yet wonderfully nuancedAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA Little Resurrectionis the debut full-length collection from...

Will a tropical escape lead to a perfect romance?It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime for Samantha: the launch of her travel blog, her best friend’s wedding...

Inspired by real life stories of the Windrush Generation and her mother’s own experiences as a nurse coming to Britain from the Caribbean, Sarah Lee’s debut novel An Ocean Apart...

A MAN MARKED BY MAGIC. A WOMAN MARKED BY HER PAST.On the other side of the Shadowpass, rebellion is brewing and refugees have begun to trickle into the city at...

Around the world in 22 murders…MURDER. BLACKMAIL. REVENGE.From Lagos to Mexico City, Australia to the Caribbean, Toronto to Los Angeles, Darjeeling to rural New Zealand, London to New York –...

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant — a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of...

Riotously funny and full of heart, Yinka is the heroine we've all been waiting for... Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her.She also has...