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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...

London. Now. And here come the new Londoners. Francine would prefer to be thinner, but is happy enough to suffer her boss' manhandling of her ample hips if it helps her survive...

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...

London, 1936. Two sisters are ready to take the city and the world by storm.Bath, 2012. Two young Black men are figuring out who they are, and who they want...

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...

The Time Traveller's Wife meets Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow in a wildly original debut novel by a major new talent. One of the 18 best novels of the year for the Sunday Times....

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 DEBUT NOVEL THAT'LL STEAL YOUR HEARTSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the...

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'...

A tender, smart, conversation-starting love story which explores questions of identity and the legacy of the slave-trade in 21st-century Britain When Layla and Andy first meet, they can't believe they...

Be one of the first to discover this award-winning writer's decadent and addictive sapphic debut, a must-read for fans of The Secret History and White Lotus. In one of America's Happiest Cities, thirty-eight-year-old...

A searing work of modern fiction tracing a man's decline into the depths of addiction Taking the form of a diary, Iced charts the life of forty-four-year-old Cornelius Washington. Initially brimming with...

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...

An intensely moving novel about three friends living in political exile and the emotional homeland that deep friendships can provide - from the Booker-shortlisted, Pulitzer prize-winning author Khaled and Mustafa...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and...

'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...

Lily is a good daughter.Every evening she pours Mama a glass of perfectly spoilt orange juice. She arranges the teddy bears on Mama’s quilt, she puts on her matching pink...

The captivating and immersive story of a Kurdish family torn apart by migration set against the backdrop of the 2008 financial crisisRafiq Hardi Kermanj, founder of the Communist Party of...

An Observer Best Book of 2020 'A story of quiet striving and determination, of love and friendship' Guardian It is New Year's Eve, 1960. Hashim has left behind his homeland and his bride,...

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...

AN OBSERVER TOP TEN DEBUT 2020 'The kind of novel you never knew you were waiting for. An explosive work that reels from sex, to sin, to salvation all the...

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,...

A stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story — in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the medical community by giving...

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...

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...

A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published. A single lighted match banishes Triton from...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from an eternity of her...

'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...

*** 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...

Translated by Marilyn Booth An extraordinary novel from a 'remarkable' Booker Prize-winning author who has 'constructed her own novelistic form' (James Wood, The New Yorker) that follows one young Omani...

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel...

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...

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...

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...

**New York Times bestseller** A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult...

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London — with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the...

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...

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.'...

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said,...

A rite-of-passage novel in the life of a young gay man growing up in a colourful and chaotic dictatorship Riverrun is a novel that talks about the rite of passage...

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...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, A House for Mr Biswasis V. S. Naipaul's best-loved novel; one of BBC’s 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. Heart-rending and...

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...