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"An intensely powerful story about friendship, unfairness, cruelty and love, from a brave new voice. Heartbreaking, touching, and thought-provoking" SANTA MONTEFIORE 'A captivating story. I couldn't put it down' Reader...

An insightful, funny and moving novel about second chances and starting over from award-winning journalist Poorna Bell.'I will read anything Poorna Bell writes!' Taylor Jenkins Reid'Gorgeous, affirming, an exploration of why...

‘Funny, deep, shocking, wry, heartwarming and spine-chilling’ – The Guardian Mr Fox, by award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, is a beautiful and immersive exploration of the labyrinthine world of imagination, storytelling and...

Her play, his name - a young Black playwright hatches a plan with her white male friend to expose the racism of the British theatrical establishment in this whip-smart, immersive...

An uplifting novel about missed chances and new beginnings 'An engaging and enjoyable romcom' ALIYA ALI-AFZAL 'A warm hug of a book' SARA JAFARI Maya's life is safe, predictable, quiet...

In this brilliantly clever fictionalised memoir, award-winning author Jamal Mahjoub interrogates how the first generation of Northern Sudanese citizens undertook the momentous task of creating a newly independent nation. Exiled...

**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 WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2021From the award-winning author of Love After Love, comes an epic of wonder, danger and risk. An unforgettable story of four incredible...

A page-turning novel about the dark side of social media, perfect for fans of The List or How to Kill Your Family.'Dark, entertaining and addictive' Stylist, 'Best Books of May''Clever and...

Ain't nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You're like these houses, not a whole brick in em and look how strong they are.As Tess traces the sunrise over...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN TIME, THE DAILY MAIL, THE INDEPENDENT, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND THE ATLANTIC Sicily, 2010. Sophia, on the cusp of adulthood, spends a long hot summer with her father, a successful author....

The glorious new novel from the landmark author - a once-in-a-lifetime trip. Oyeyemi treats you to a kaleidoscopic weekend in Prague, as dazzling as it is effortlessly unique. Get lost...

From the twice Booker-nominated author of The Year of the Runaways and China Room, The Spoiled Heart is a magnificent novel of love, community and politics, set at the edge...

How can you live in the present when you’re trying to bury the past? ‘A sweeping tale of resilience’ i News 'An ineffably touching novel by a talented young author'...

Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong. Baby has had it with just about everything. She's fed up with her job and her colleagues, her...

For fans of Queenie, The List and I May Destroy You, this razor sharp debut novel will capture your heart, make you laugh and sob, and will leave you asking yourself- what would you...

Moving between Ghana and London, Hold is an intimate coming-of-age novel. It's a story of friendship and family, shame and forgiveness; of learning what we should cling to, and when...

A big-hearted, utterly charming carousel of a novel about three generations of the same family, riven by feuds and falling-outs, united by fates and fortunes. 'A beautiful, brilliant modern classic.'...

British-Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina Shergill have never been close. But now they've been thrown together on the strangest family holiday of all time…When their mother died, she had...

‘Big-hearted, earthy and funny… A rattlingly good story' — Deborah Moggach, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel When Nikki takes a creative writing job at her local temple, with visions of...

On Beauty by Zadie Smith, author of the prize-winning White Teeth, is a funny, powerful and moving story about love and family. Set in New England mainly and London partly,...

'[An] evocative tale of identity, friendship and unexpected love' — Mail on Sunday 'Marks Okoh as an exciting new voice in contemporary fiction.' — AnOther magazine After a bad break...

Shortlisted for the British Book Awards Book of the Year: Pageturners. The 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. From the bestselling author of The...

A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over — just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners,...

From widely acclaimed comedian and author, Shappi Khorsandi, comes a modern fable about the rise and fall of a beautiful, but vulnerable, young woman in a world obsessed with money,...

Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump but they...

‘The book I wish I’d written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next’ — Aravind Adiga ‘Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good.’ — Philip Pullman ‘Red Pill stands as a final blast...

‘An imaginative collection full of wide eyed wonder and millennial wit’ — Sharlene Teo ‘Ishiguro, daughter of the 2017 Nobel Laureate, is already being touted as a writer of rare...

*An Evening Standard Must Read for 2021* From the acclaimed author of ESCAPE ROUTES, a bittersweet story of coming-of-age in a divided world, in the tradition of TIN MAN or...

A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out...

'This is where I begin. This blank page draws me nearer to you, the day sweltering, my courage quickens, the curtains billowing and the punkah swaying, the punkah rattling as...

Mother. To three small children, their heritage dual like hers. Daughter. To a mother who immigrated to make a better life but has been rejected by her chosen country. Wife....

*** 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...

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...

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for . . . Sunny is the queen of living a double life. To her friends, she's...

Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa First Novel Award 'The perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami' — Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She...

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...

IT'S TIME FOR A BRAND NEW KIND OF LOVE STORY. Are you ready? Because Nina Mistry isn't . . . Thirty Things I Love About Myself is the exuberant, witty,...

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....

ASGHAR AND ZAHRA follows an unlikely couple through the first year of their tumultuous marriage LONGLISTED FOR THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE 'Childhood friends Asghar and Zahra were born into the...

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...

An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film. Alone one morning at a backstreet cafe, he strikes up a conversation...

Black Britain: Writing Back Theonly novelfrom the revolutionary intellectual C.L.R. James, andthe first novel by a Black West Indian to be published in the UK It is the 1920s in...

The new novel about the present, the past, and the slippage between private and public life — from a writer who has 'like Proust, mastered the art of the moment.'...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION A darkly comic and unflinchingly raw depiction of a young woman trying to navigate her way in the world, QUEENIE is about identity,...

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...

With words come power. But do you speak out or shut up? Everywhere Sara Javed goes — online or outside — everyone is shouting about something. Couldn't they all just...

From cultural icon Jade LB comes the notorious Keisha the Sket, an unforgettable coming-of-age story and a raw and original depiction of British youth culture.Where were you when Keisha the...

From fresh new voice Aliya Ali-Afzal, Would I Lie to You? is a page-turning, warm and funny debut about what happens when you have your dream life – and are...

**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...