2023 releases

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...

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Jamilah has always believed she knows where her home is: in a house...

The powerful and poignant new novel from the author of the much-loved A Woman is No Man. Raised in a conservative Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally...

How is the struggle for Palestinian freedom bound up in other freedom struggles, and how are activists coming together globally to achieve justice and liberation for all? In this bold...

Translated by Saward HussainIn 2015, a year after it started, Bushra al-Maqtari decided to document the suffering of civilians in the Yemeni civil war, which has killed over 200,000 people...

Translated by Maureen FreelyA lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s IstanbulThe narrator of Cold Nights of...

Inspired by stories from One Thousand and One Nights, The Stardust Thief weaves the gripping tale of a legendary smuggler, a cowardly prince and a dangerous quest across the desert...

Two sisters become trapped in the underworld-and in the machinations of deities, shapeshifters, and ghouls-in this lush and dangerous Phoenician mythology-inspired fantasy.A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the...

From the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family.2019. Moud is an out gay teen...

A stunning collection from Sydney poet, human rights activist, community organiser, and refugee campaigner Sara M Saleh.With her first full-length poetry collection, Sara M Saleh introduces us to the polychromatic...

A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places...

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

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...

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...

When Lamya is fourteen, she decides to disappear.It seems easier to ease herself out of sight than to grapple with the difficulty of taking shape in a world that doesn't...

Young People’s Poet Laureate and National Book Award Finalist Naomi Shihab Nye’s uncommon and unforgettable voice offers readers peace, humor, inspiration, and solace. This volume of almost one hundred original...

The best-loved, bestselling poem ever published — a poem that embraces the theme 'seize the moment''One thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is...

An imaginative and sprawling epic fantasy reimagining of the Mongol Empire's invasion of Persia, following the lives and treacherous journeys of four key figures in the heart of war.1260, Persia...

A stunning new collection from the award-winning, bestselling author of The Lost ArabsIn this exciting follow-up to his acclaimed collection The Lost Arabs, award-winning poet Omar Sakr delves deep into...

From North London to North Cyprus"This book is just about food. Nothing flashy, no expensive equipment and gizmos. It’s entirely about flavours and understanding. Food in its entirety is more...

When her family had to flee Syria, 14-year-old Muzoon was told to pack only the most essential things — and so she packed her schoolbooks.This is the inspiring true story...

Translated by Max WeissA powerful and beautiful Syrian novel set in Aleppo during the early days of the civil war that followed the Arab Spring.Jumaa is a schoolteacher in Aleppo....

The Ethics of AI and the Future of HumanityIs Artificial Intelligence Racist? interrogates the link between the racist legacies of enlightenment and imperialistic thought to current developments in Artificial Intelligence...

A magical, cross-century tale of self-discovery from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World — now a Penguin EssentialElla Rubinstein has a husband, three teenage...

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, Agnes,...

This is not a book about divorce. It’s not a book about God, either. You might think it is a book about goodness and what it means to be a...

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...

Translated by Martin ChalmersGrowing up in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era for thousands of...

The eagerly awaited new novel from the prizewinning author of In Our Mad and Furious CityRaised by 'Many Mothers' and an eccentric uncle in a crumbling East Ham home, even...

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsWith a foreword by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winnerExtended solitary confinement has been condemned as a severe...

Kian and Shirin haven't spoken for ten years. Will a chance encounter change everything? A moving story of second chances and finding your place in the world, from the author...

A bustling, vibrant tour of flavour-packed Syrian dishes90 sensational recipes celebrating the flavours of Syria, that can easily be made in the comfort of your own homeThis is the first...

On the trip of a lifetime, Adam and Zayneb must find their way back to each other in this surprising and romantic sequel to the “bighearted, wildly charming” (Becky Albertalli,...