Literary Fiction

'Rarely is a book this finely wrought, the lives and histories it holds so tenderly felt, and rendered unforgettably true' — Ocean Vuong, author of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous...

A searing, provocative satire by one of the most important African-American novelists of the twentieth century that lays bare the abiding racism and the legacy of slavery on the psyche...

Winner of the 2019 Barry Ronge Fiction Prize 'On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm and Estate. At the moment...

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Of the Diaspora — North America Featuring a new original introduction by Edwidge Danticat Avey Johnson — a black, middle-aged, middle-class widow given to hats, gloves, and pearls-has long since...

A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists. In Pointe-Noire, in the small neighbourhood of Voungou, on the family plot...

A modern classic — Lola Shoneyin's debut novel is a portrait of a clamorous household in the midst of upheaval. Coming soon to Netflix! When Baba Segi awoke with a...

Winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction Introduced by Brandon Taylor — Booker-shortlisted author of Real Life —Erasure is an unforgettable, satirical but tender novel about race and cultural...

William Melvin Kelley's final work, a Joycean, Rabelaisian romp in which he brings back some of his most memorable characters in a novel of three intertwining stories. Ride on out...

Shortlisted for the Fiction category in the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Discovered amidst a tangle of sea grape trees, Moshe Fisher's provenance is a thing of myth and...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020 Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020 Time #1...

When a county initiative in the Piedmont of North Carolina forces the students at a mostly Black public school on the east side to move across town to a nearly...

*** ONE OF THE OBSERVER'S 10 MUST-READ DEBUT NOVELISTS OF 2022 *** Sayon Hughes, a young Black man from Bristol, dreams of a world far removed from the one in...

Razor sharp. provocatively page-turning and surprisingly tender, Luster is a painfully funny coming-of-age story told by a fresh new voice. WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 LONGLISTED FOR...

‘Inventive, excellent … a pure pleasure to read’ THE TIMESIn this compelling debut, an unknowable legacy passes through generations of one family living on the beautiful island of Barbados.There is...

A novel about lovers, fathers and sons. About vulnerability, losses, love and regrets. Achike Okoro is an up-and-coming actor, soon to star in the career-making film 'Here Again Now.' His...

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history. Danielle Evans is...

An emotional, tender and funny novel from award-winning author Alecia McKenzie that asks, what does family mean to you?Seeking solitude after a personal tragedy upends his world, artist Chris travels...

'A story rendered with so much heart' Taylor Jenkins Reid The bonds between women - as friends, and across the generations - are the jewels that make this story shine!'...

Glory arrives back in Peckham, from her seemingly-glamorous life in LA, to mourn the sudden death of her father, and finds her previously-close family has fallen apart in her absence....

A stunning new reissue of one of the most iconic fictional debuts of all time, to mark the 25th anniversary of this modern classicFirst published in the year 2000, Zadie...

A suspenseful, epic novel portraying a community — and a family-under siege, during the shocking string of murders of Black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. Zala Spencer is...

From the award-winning author of Land of Love and Drowning, an electric new novel that maps the emotional inheritance of one couple newly in love.When Fly and Stela meet in...

Translated by Richard Philcox A mesmerizing novel from one of the most important writers working today, winner of the alternative Nobel Prize Francis Sancher, a handsome outsider, loved by some...

Translated by Anna KushnerHaunting and transcendently twisted, this English-language debut from a Cuban literary star is a tale of race, magic, belief, and fateThe Stuart family moves to a marginal...

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew. You want a home. You want to win back...

From National Book Award–nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens — on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles —the narrator of The Sellout is raised by...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening...

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...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy,...

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story...

Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the...

'I have more privilege than any person in my family. And I'm still screwed.' From award-winning author Olivia Wenzel comes a captivating and unsettling literary debut about race, politics, feminism,...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacologicalLove, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest,...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35 Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone...

Driven by a deep-seated desire to understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the...

Introduced by Petina Gappah, a lost classic by a radical Black South African author: as exiled African activists in post-war London plot to revolutionise their native countries, idealism and tragedy...

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...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHES A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in...

'A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer' — Bernardine Evaristo In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale...

Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago.What, what, am I to do with all of...

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction******2020 Story Prize Finalist******Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction***An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going...

A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history — this is Beloved for the 21st century. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One...

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they...

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...