2023 releases

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...

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...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrida Liu had fed and changed her toddler Harriet. She had a work deadline - an article to finish, a job hanging by a thread,...

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 (again)....

Rule Number One: Family is Everything.New York City. Late 1980s to early 1990s. Mercy and Lenox Howard have always only had each other. Growing up on the mean streets of...

The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go...

“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...

Inspired by true historical events in the Caribbean, River Sing Me Home will break your heart and then lift you up. A soaring story of courage and sacrifice, this novel...

From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter's quest to save her motherAyosa is a wandering spirit joyous,...

A thought-provoking and nuanced memoir on motherhood, race and identityM(other)land will be a powerful response to the absence of an inclusive and accessible blueprint for navigating life as a multi-faceted...

Translated by Geraldine HarcourtNew in Penguin Japanese Classics — an innovative feminist novel about motherhood and girlhoodKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has...