Literary Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 A story of the lives of the three people who make a family, the one moment in history that shatters what held them together,...

Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize 2018Shortlisted for the NUS Singapore History Prize 2021Shortlisted for the Singapore Book Awards 2018, Best Fiction Title Siew Li leaves her husband and young...

In the vein of The Paris Wife and The Personal Librarian comes this debut novel, a magnificent work of “biographical fiction” that reimagines the turbulent and triumphant early years of...

'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...

'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...

Translated by Ruth Martin A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran.1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order...

A bold and electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times, from the...

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t...

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women. Arabella gets an unexpected...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women...

Where there was fire, ashes remain . . . Costa Rica, 1968. A deadly fire rips through the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation, destroying all evidence of a...

Translated by Peter Theroux Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.A...

"This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems with charms and curses, stunning disasters and startling moments of grace." —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation and Weather A fishing village plagued by...

'A layered, beautifully written, and deeply moving novel. Karissa Chen masterfully blends love, music, history, and heartbreak to create a sweeping tale that spans decades and continents' - Abi Dare There...

An emotionally wrenching novel tackling key themes such as generational trauma and what it means to be Black British, surviving between the gaps of knowledge around familial migrant journeys, set...

A thrilling story of love and resistance about two young people born across social lines, set against a tumultuous political landscape in India.The mounting curiosity amongst them was not about...

Named a Best Book of the Summer by Harper's Bazaar and ELLE • Audiofile Magazine Earphones Award Winner • HONOLULU Magazine’s Book of the Year About Hawai`i “Stunning . . . An...

**A 2024 literary highlight in Esquire, Vogue, GQ, i-D, and Dazed** An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is...

From the acclaimed author of Hold - a beautifully written, spirited and deeply moving novel about a young man coming to terms with his past and finding the courage to expand...

*A stunning and compelling novel for fans of PACHINKO, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, and SHUGGIE BAIN* 'The pages crackle with the tension of a Hollywood thriller . . . an enticing, engaging...

HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO BELONG? On the precipice of Y2K, unpaid intern Lily Chen is attempting to live the American dream in New York City. But her scientist parents...

The heart-rending story of a Native American community told through the generations, longlisted for the Booker PrizeColorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to...

Moving between cities and generations, Amma follows three women on very different paths, against a backdrop of shifting cultures. As circumstance and misunderstanding force them apart, it will take the most profound love...

'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo 'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' Malika Booker When reclusive billionaire...

‘Aiwanose Odafen’s novel has entered popular feminist discourse.’ Afrocritik On a Sunday in 1978, Obianuju meets Chigozie at church – the perfect place for an upstanding girl to find a...

BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF BELOVED Winner of the PEN/Saul Bellow award for achievement in American fiction Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products,...

*Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.' A brilliant new novel from the...

*Shortlisted for the Small Press Network 2021 Book of the Year Award* The Tiniest House of Time is more than a family saga, ranging across continents and decades seamlessly, from...

The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman's perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, the first novel published in English by a female Kurdish writer Set primarily...

A Stylist Best Book of 2020 You’re free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past? The pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen....

Spanning more than half a century and cities from New Delhi to Atlanta, Anjali Enjeti’s debut is a heartfelt and human portrait of the long shadow of the Partition of...

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...

‘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 deeply moving novel about tradition, love, war and the sorrow & hope exile will bring. 'The women arrive first, on an afternoon like any other, when Henna is safely...

*Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* An ancient ocean roars under the red dirt. Hush. Be still for just a moment. Hear its thunder-ing waves crashing on unseen...

‘At magic hour; when the sun has gone but the light has not, armies of flying foxes unhinge themselves from the Banyan trees in the old graveyard and drift across...

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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

A New York Times Editor's Choice An intimate, stirring portrait of a country at war and a family's battle to survive. Set against the backdrop of the Viet Nam War,...

A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

The Women’s Prize shortlisted novel about two star-crossed lovers in war-torn Cyprus Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both...

Freedom, you can't get and bury, and keep it and keep it so it won't ever go away. No, child. You got to swing your freedom like a club.In 1859,...

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2015 Jamaica, 1976: Seven men storm Bob Marley's house with machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but leaves Jamaica the following day, not...

The heart-rending story of survival and endurance in Japanese-occupied Singapore Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked, leaving only three survivors, one...

FOR FANS OF CELESTE NG and MIN JIN LEE. 'A riveting mother-daughter tale' Elle 'Spellbinding and intricately layered' E.M. Tran 'A gripping tale about motherhood' Heat 'This novel has everything you want' Meng...

An unexpected act of violence brings together two families in this propulsive and sweeping story of love, identity and the American experience. Set in New York and China over three...