2023 releases

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...

Translated by Deborah Smith and e. yaewon A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian In a classroom in...

Translated by Alison Watts THE TWO-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING INTERNATIONAL NOVEL The irresistible hardback Times bestseller and bookshop favourite about the healing power of books and community; Time magazine Top 100 books of 2023; 'An undeniable...

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...

Quito Cruz might be a genius piano player and composer in New York City now but it doesn't mean that he's any closer to his Broadway dream. Although Quito knows...

'Heartbreaking, hopeful . . . nothing short of a joy' — Caleb Azumah Nelson, author of Open Water Rupert's eclectic charity shop, The Chest of Small Wonders, sits on an...

Translated by Jeffrey Angles Winner of the Sakutaro Hagiwara Prize and the MurasakiShikibu Prize Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko...

She’s stayed quiet for too long. Now it’s time to speak her truth. Until twenty-four hours ago, Mickey Hayward was living the life she’d always dreamed of: Working as a...

A 'marvelous' (Lauren Groff) and riveting novel about a woman who has come undone. A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter,...

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...

But the Girl is a wry and razor-sharp coming-of-age novel about belonging, alienation, and the exquisite pleasure and pain of girlhood, for readers of The Idiot by Elif Batuman and...

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...

Fame. Fortune. Love. You can't have them all. Meet LA darling Evra Scott. The daughter of an Oscar-winning director and a Brazilian bombshell actress, Evra is the city’s reigning style...

Translated by An Seon Jae Two women's lives and identities are intertwined — through World War II and the Korean War — revealing the harsh realities of class division in...

When Mika Suzuki reunites with the daughter she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago, can she convince her to stay? At 35, Mika Suzuki is struggling. She's been fired...

Translated by Megan McDowell A tender, heartfelt and very funny novel about fathers, sons and the many forms of family, from an internationally acclaimed writer Gonzalo is a frustrated would-be...

A stirring coming-of-age novel about guilt, loss, love and memory. Others Were Emeralds explores the inherent danger of allowing our misconceptions to shape our reality. This is the part in...

Translated by Ruth Martin 'We don't exist in this world. Here we're neither Germans nor refugees; we aren't newsreaders or experts. We're some kind of joker in the pack, and...

Translated by Daniel Hahn An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland,...

When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the...

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to...

Translated by Jamie Chang Eight women. Eight stories. One reality. A woman is born. A woman is filmed in public without consent. A woman suffers domestic violence. A woman is...

The million-copy bestselling series Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s poignant Before we say goodbye, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would you do if you could travel back...

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is juggling work, relationships, and a newborn baby — but will she find the happy ending...

“I think we got off on the wrong foot, with you telling me I had to be killed and then me getting all upset about it. Let’s start again. My...

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...

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...

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 pitch perfect encapsulation of one young woman's quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood SELIN IS THE LUCKIEST PERSON IN HER...

The stunning second novel from Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese's Book Club pick His Only Wife When Selasi and Akorfa were young girls they were more than just cousins...

Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, Someday Maybe is the story of grief and resilience that you won't be able to stop talking about Here are three things you should...

The chronicler of contemporary London, acclaimed and bestselling author Zadie Smith, returns with her first historical novel Truth and fiction. Jamaica and Britain. Who gets to tell their story? In...

Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family,...

Translated by Clare Richards Vacuum cleaner bitch. When Jina sees this anonymous comment on a forum it forces her out of her stupor. It is posted on a website dissecting...

Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing seasons. The uplifting new Japanese cat novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The...

The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen. I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a...

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of...

A sharply humorous tale of romantic love and cultural warfare. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected farm in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping...

The unforgettable winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award. Too much lip, her old problem from way back. And the older she got, the harder it seemed to get...

A gripping tale of murder and prejudice from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of Too Much Lip.Koori teenager Darcy Mango is young, broke and on parole. His biggest problem isn't...

A powerful story of life and death on the run, from the Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author of Too Much Lip Roo Glover has two highly desirable talents - he...

What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant called the Kamogawa Diner run by...

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...

I looked at the streets of Yagoona through eyes stinging with melted Maybelline liquid liner. Yagoona looked back at me, the wannabe hipster who dreamed of moving to a share...

Translated by Amy B. Reid The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and...

An artist of colour becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamour of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang. At an otherwise forgettable party...

A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession — a...

This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everything....