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From the bestselling author of Homegoingcomes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey...

Could you put your life on hold for twelve years?  A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond...

A funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the African father she never knew, by award-winning author Chibundu Onuzo. Anna grew up...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays...

'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - Vogue For fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire – alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast...

Translated by Elisabeth Lauffer24 MUST-READ 2022 BOOKS IN TRANSLATION as selected by BOOK RIOTIt’s 2011 and the Arab Spring is in full bloom when the discovery of two bodies in...

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material — school bullies, depressed parents — but...

In this 'razor-sharp' and 'dangerously hilarious' novel that "hooks readers from the beginning" (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in...

'Nobody's ever really given us such a revealing look at New York's Dominican population before . . . Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**An extraordinary depiction of the life of an immigrant, as he struggles to come to terms with the horror of his...

**By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021**Vehement, comic and shrewd, Abdulrazak Gurnah's first novel is an unwavering contemplation of East African coastal lifePoverty and depravity wreak havoc...

A searing tale of a young woman discovering her troubled family history and cultural past, by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021Dottie Badoura Fatma Balfour finds solace...

A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your futureJoey is young, indifferent. He's drifting around Western Sydney unaware that his passivity is leading him astray. And...

Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by...

Translated by Stephen HenighanIn a crumbling apartment block in the Angolan city of Luanda, families work, laugh, scheme, and get by. In the middle of it all is the melancholic...

A wry and insightful portrait of contemporary life, this is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning novel Chemistry.Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital....

Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women in their mid-thirties, neither of whom have built their future around the prospect of a family. Laura has taken the drastic decision...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

Mallika is a painfully shy young woman growing up in the heart of a close-knit, sometimes stifling New Delhi colony. Though she is surrounded by love, her life is complicated...

Translated by Carlos Rojas The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and...

A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 For all fans of Hot Milk comes a searing debut novel about mothers and daughters, obsession and betrayal. In her youth, Tara was wild....

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Cara left the Dominican Republic for America, she thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest...

Unmissable, uplifting debut fiction — a richly mythic love story set in the lush landscape of modern Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city to seek...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE 2019 Two couples find themselves at a moment of reckoning. Melissa has a new baby and doesn't want to let it change her. Damian has...

Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel PrizeIn this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of five generations...

A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork For three years,...

Translated by Adam MorrisBenjamim, a young man on the cusp of fatherhood, discovers a disturbing family secret: before his father was born, his paternal grandfather had a child with Benjamim's...

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern...

Translated by Darryl SterkA mesmerizing web of family secrets and countryside superstitions, the search for identity and clash of cultures, from the winner of the Taiwan Literature Award.Chen Tien-Hong, the...

The House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is...

Creative writing professor Maneka Roy has not returned to India in years, and when she arrives in her home country to mourn the loss of her mother, she finds herself...

The powerful, emotional novel about the temptations of dangerous love For fans of Daisy Jones and the Six and Half-Blood Blues, a sultry sensuous novel about looking for love in...

In 1990, three boys are born, unrelated but intertwined by circumstance: Dayo, Iseul, and Youssef.They are adopted as infants and live in a shared bedroom perched atop a mosque in...

A young woman spends her days watching the neighbours through their windows. She is a refugee, who has seen the failure of the Arab Spring in her homeland and who...

Just like the brief life and oeuvre of iconic Bulgarian poet Petya Dubarova, every page of this short novel pulsates with feelings.In Letter to Petya Dubarova, South African poet and...

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao tells the story of Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight ghetto nerd, a New Jersey romantic...

Winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin Award The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield...

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author — a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian...

The New York Times bestseller from the author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply heart-wrenching novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by...

The authentic and insightful story of Kemi, Brittany-Rae and Muna, three Black women and their everyday experiences living in Stockholm, a predominantly white city. Three Black women. Three everyday lives....

Joint Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2019 Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Winsome is a young Windrush bride, recently...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. In northern Japan, overlooking...

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 Water The one thing that can...

A powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself Raised as a boy in a grand but unhappy family in Nigeria, Otolorin Akinro escapes to...

Discover this astonishing work of fiction from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott. THIS IS A TRUE STORY. An author goes on a book tour for his new...

A big-hearted, beautifully written, utterly engaging novel about love, fear, second chances and the hardest shot in golf, from a sparkling new Australian voice. 'The albatross is just about the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption. Eniola is tall...

An explosive, genre-defying reinvention of the 'immigrant' novel from Amitava Kumar. Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to...