Literary Fiction

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.Inspired by horror fiction,...

Frankenstein meets Heathers in this dazzling, hilarious, and deliciously dark follow-up to the viral sensation Bunny, from Margaret Atwood’s ‘literary heir’, Mona Awad Fall down the rabbit hole into the intoxicating world of Mona Awad’s second...

The one and only Akwaeke Emezi is back with a breathtaking, sexy and out-of-this world page-turner that will blow away their fans. Son of the Morning weaves together Southern folklore and magic...

'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists' People 'Just so brilliant' John Green Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856....

 'A complex, ever-tightening, increasingly suspenseful web' Washington Post 'Gripping' New York Times In the days before the Civil War, an enslaved woman named Liz Spocott escapes from her captors into...

1996, London. Nicola, tall and gorgeous, has re-birthed herself. She has landed a breakthrough role and her star is rising - she can feel herself blossoming, can see it in the...

Over a hot summer in New York a painter falls for a priest, in this captivating modern love story from the Booker-Prize shortlisted Brandon Taylor'One of the most accomplished, important...

From the author of the Booker nominated, international bestseller Nightcrawling - a novel about the joys and entanglements of a fierce group of teenage mothers in a Florida beach town When...

BY THE WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION'A magnificent novel- beautiful, terrible, true _x2026_ It reads already like a classic' - Ali SmithShortlisted for the Baileys Women s Prize for...

'A richly woven novel ... The voice that guides us around this world darts with wit and lightness in a way that is unique and often lovely' - Rana Dasgupta, Guardian'The plot...

Silence is complicity, but how do we confront the cost of speaking up?Sydney, May 2021. Ashraf is an academic whose career and personal life are in freefall. Hannah is a...

The bestselling author of The Bone Tree returns with an epic new novel set in Aotearoa in the 1940s. Muru is not revenge. Muru is about balance. You put your hands on...

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets 'A writer of...

What happened on the road will change them forever... Thirty years ago, Alex, Bonnie and Kevin went on a road trip to the Grand Canyon with their parents. But something...

Two Black writers - with stories to tell, and some they'd rather forget. One wins the big prize, gets the book tour, walks into the spotlight of global success. The...

Kinga is a woman who is just trying to make it through the week.There's a Kinga for every day: on Mondays, you can catch Kinga A deleting food delivery apps....

A reimagining of Moby Dick from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor. Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare'One of the most valuable...

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...

Acclaimed author of The Anthropologists Aysegül Savaş’s acute and tender first collection explores the distances we keep, and those we try to close, in the age of connectivity.A researcher abroad in Rome...

Megha Majumdar’s electrifying new novel, following her acclaimed New York Times bestseller and National Book Award longlisted A Burning. Set in a near-future Kolkata, India, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity, two families seeking...

Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, The Stolen Bicycle is now available in a more compact paperback edition.A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's...

From the award-winning author of Song of the Crocodile comes a lyrical and masterfully woven novel about women, creation, belonging and the precious fragility of a life. 'Mothers are experts...

No.1 NYT-bestselling YA author Renee Ahdieh's adult debut novel, about a young lawyer who gets pulled in to manage a crisis with her firm's biggest client, a family whose Korean...

A portrait of companionship – achingly tender and twisted – that captures the tenuous line between love and possession. What if you could enter the mind of the person you love...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New Yorker Craig Suder, third baseman for the Seattle Mariners, is in a slump. His batting average is shocking, his...

‘Everett has mastered the movement between unspeakable terror and knock out comedy’ – The New York Times David Larson can never go home. His parents are dead. His sister and her...

A dazzlingly eerie and bewitching novel. As the sun starts slowly disappearing, the residents of a remote town in the desert find themselves undergoing shocking transformations.In Five Poems Lake, a...

Translated by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda An epic novel of postwar, nuclear-age Japan, by the author of Territory of LightMitch and Yonko haven't spoken in a year. As children, they were inseparable, raised...

Enter the enchanted forest of the festival for the broken-hearted... Hearts will be healed, and hearts broken, but nobody will leave this festival exactly as they arrived, in the new...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMESFor girls, becoming women was...

'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled - Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' -...

In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...

*FINALIST FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARDS 2019* *WINNER OF THE NSW PREMIERS LITERARY AWARDS MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2019* 'Bani Adam thinks he's better than us!' they say over and...

A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect Worldof Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. When Shouji Arai crosses one...

'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...

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...

 'Absolutely electric' Garth Greenwell 'A major talent' Financial Times 'Reminiscent of Donna Tartt's The Secret History' New Yorker Phoebe Lin and Will Kendall fall in love at university. Phoebe is a glamorous girl...

WINNER OF THE JANN MEDLICOTT ACORN PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE MITOQ BEST FIRST BOOK OF FICTIONWINNER OF THE NGAIO MARSH AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL auē1. (verb) to cry,...

From the internationally bestselling author of Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin...

Sisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another - but life has taken them on very different paths. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting...

'It's time we name our kingdom!' he shouted over the wind. 'I say we call this place Happy Land. If this ain't the land of happy people, then where is...

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....

From the author of the modern classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and...

'The boldest debut of the year . . . It is refreshing to discover a new author of such grand scale, singular focus and blistering vision' —Observer America In the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION‘A mighty achievement’ OCEAN VUONG‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMESAn extraordinary story of the journey of one young...

Translated by Allison Markin Powell A moving portrayal of a troubled mother–daughter relationship, shortlisted for Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize. In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a...

From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Year of the Runaways. When Imtiaz...

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...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Dancing Home is part road-movie, part 'Koori-noir' from an original and darkly funny new voice.'When he was...

A masterful story of friendship and how much we're willing to risk to possess one of life's most treasured mercies- a second chance. Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful...