2023 releases

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 from the Spanish by Heather Cleary A bewitching novel by Brenda Lozano, one of the most prominent voices of the new generation of Latin American writers. 'You can't really...

Translated by Polly Barton Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes on trips to...

A novel in stories A startling and vivid debut novel in stories from acclaimed poet and translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain, featuring deeply compelling Asian women who reckon with the past, violence,...

Kink is a groundbreaking anthology of literary short fiction exploring love and desire, BDSM, and interests across the sexual spectrum, edited by lauded writers R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell, and...

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...

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...

FROM THE BOOKER-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF HOW MUCH OF THESE HILLS IS GOLD A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world...

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...

Translated by Megan McDowell The second novel by the internationally celebrated writer Alejandro Zambra, a 'short and strikingly original' (New Yorker) book about the stories we spin for ourselves and...

A new book by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Part detective story, part historical epic — a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague taking over...

Translated by Kerim YasarAn off-kilter, darkly ironic novella from a Japanese literary star - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesIsolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his...

Translated by Kendall Heitzmann Tense, subtly disturbing literary horror from a prize-winning Japanese writer — part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella series Under strange circumstances, a young girl loses her...

Khuku, a housewife, is irritated with the Muslims because their call to prayer wakes her up early every morning; her husband, a retired businessman, has been hired to cure a...

From the author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth, a novel that goes straight to the heart of a family, in all their hopes, desires and regrets. A year...

**Includes a new foreword by Pankaj Mishra** From the award-winning author of Sojourn, a mesmerising novel about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with...

A stunning collection of short stories from the award-winning author of Sojourn and Friend of My Youth. Set across Bombay and Calcutta, Amit Chaudhuri's stories range from a divorcee about...

A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century. December, 1907: one morning after a night of drunken carousing in...

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...

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 —...

For readers of Damon Galgut, Brandon Taylor, and J M Coetzee, an atmospheric story of love and violence in rural Pakistan from an exceptional new literary voice On the train...

Translated by Haydn Trowell Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Several days after...

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...

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...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

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...

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...

Edinburgh, 1923. Evelyn Hazard is a young woman living a comfortable and unremarkable middle-class life. One day, her quiet existence is shattered when her steady, reliable husband Robert makes a...

Translated from the Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai Minoru Aose is an architect whose greatest achievement is to have designed the Yoshino house, a prizewinning and much discussed private residence...

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...

Translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri and Todd Portnowitz Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies, comes to Picador with an astonishing new collection of short stories,...

The first weapon I ever held was my mother's hand. On a slave plantation in the Carolinas, Annis has survived in the light of her mother's resilience, comforted by stories...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S AWARD FOR FICTION‘her writing is poetic and reverential. The author’s understanding...

From the bestselling, prize-winning author of Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures comes an exquisitely crafted novel, piercing in its urgency and breathtaking in its intimacy, about the devastating experience of addiction.In...

Winner of the 2022 ASA/HQ Fiction Prize. A finely observed debut novel of a young Muslim woman's experience of immigration to Australia from Sri Lankan-Australian writer Ayesha Inoon.Zia secretly longs...

Amidst the hustle and bustle of life in east London, these people are trying to hold onto hope in an ever-changing world . . . Jess is a single mother...

Combining the haunting power of Toni Morrison’s Belovedwith the evocative atmosphere of Phillippa Gregory’s A Respectable Trade, Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa’s groundbreaking novel illuminates a little discussed aspect of history — the...

“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times...

In this stunning debut novel — a tale of self-discovery and feminist awakening — a feisty Nigerian-Ghanaian girl growing up amid the political upheaval of late 1960s postcolonial Ghana begins...

“A fascinating epic tale.” — The New York Post An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives...

The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension...

A breathtaking and ambitious debut novel that chronicles the journey of multiple generations of one American family, from the centuries of the colonial slave trade through the Civil War to...

Set during the partition of British India in 1947, a time when neighbor was pitted against neighbor and families were torn apart, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel brings to...

In this bold and brilliant work from the award-winning author of The Nine-Chambered Heart, journeys across continents and centuries intertwine in a multi-layered saga that unfolds through the lives of...

An unforgettable debut novel about the furious loyalty of two Latinx women coming of age in Queens, New York, an emotionally resonant novel infused with the insight, power, and poignancy...

The Asian literary phenomenon of the 90s. More magical than Mistry, more of a rollicking good read than Rushdie, more nerve-tinglingly imagined than Naipaul, here, perhaps, is the greatest Indian...