Fiction

Jennifer's Body meets Heartstopper in this terrifying, tender, and bitingly hilarious supernatural horror about a boy who must save his best friend from a demon that wants to steal his...

A unique amalgamation of an LGBTQ+ coming-of-age tale of identity and sisterly-love with supernatural influences set in modern metropolitan SingaporeGrowing up was never meant to be easy for Michelle Tan....

From the author of There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, this piercing, genre-bending debut follows two families in alternative timelines of the Salvadoran civil war in a stunning exploration of...

A captivating debut following a cross-country road trip that will make you believe in the goodness of people, Off the Books sheds light on the power in humanity during the...

In this hilarious and heartfelt debut graphic novel, a girl born on a day considered unlucky in Chinese superstition starts to wonder if she really is cursed when she’s troubled...

The first in a sweeping Southwest Asian-inspired epic fantasy trilogy brimming with morally ambiguous characters, terrifying ghouls and deadly monsters. Combining cut-throat dynastic politics with expansive worldbuilding and slow-burning romance,...

The Other Wife is a bold debut about race and class, love and nostalgia and learning to live with the life we have chosen Susan 'Zuzu' Braeburn is almost forty....

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...

The world has been divided by the Barrier. For 115 years this extraterrestrial, epidimensional entity has divided the earth into warring zones. Power-hungry politicians, gangsters, and spiritual fundamentalists are determined...

Introducing a sharp-witted heroine for the 21st a new amateur sleuth exploring the landscape—both physical and virtual—of New York in a debut novel about love, technology, and murder. Claudia Lin...

Heat rises and sparks fly when a surf-town author and an intimacy coordinator are thrown together to write new, steamy sex scenes for a TV series based on her hit...

Debut author Molly Olgun brings us The Sea Gives Up the Dead, a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tales, left to take root and grow wild...

The much-anticipated follow-up to acclaimed graphic novelist Lee Lai's Stella-shortlisted Stone Fruit, a funny, dark, emotionally turbulent slice of friendship strife. We arrive to wreckage a restaurant smashed to rubble, with...

A haunting coming-of-age tale following the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, Ronny Nguyen, as she grapples with the weight of generational trauma while navigating the violent power of teenage girlhood, for...

Ember Lee Cardinal hasn't always been a liar . . . When Ember's resume is rejected for the thirty-seventh time, she decides to take matters into her own hands and get a little 'creative'...

A sharp and insightful coming-of-age story about all the ways we find home from an exciting debut author and 2022 black&write! Fellow. When I look back, I realise everything I...

'A short, powerful and joyously life-affirming novel.' Red Magazine 'A wry meditation on grief, healing, and reclaiming one's identity.' TIME Magazine 'A stand-out and must-read debut... Every paragraph is perfect'...

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...

**Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times,independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95** 'Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain's brightest debut...

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you'd better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity. Luckily, Edward...

FILM RIGHTS NOW OPTIONED BY QUEEN LATIFAH ''An Underground Railroad - but with magic'' P. Djeli Clark''...a delightfully genre-bending debut'' Tananarive Due Meet Hetty Rhodes, a former conductor on the...

A riveting, emotionally-charged tale of forbidden love, centred on an estranged couple who are brought together to reckon with the events that tore their family apart decades ago. In 1960s...

Inspired by true stories from the authors' grandparents' lives during one of the darkest periods in Korean history, The Last Tiger is a debut young adult fantasy novel about the...

For lovers of Elizabeth Acevedo and Angie Cruz comes this extraordinary debut novel from Uruguayan-Australian author Natalia Figueroa Barroso. The power of Hailstones Fell without Rain lies in its pacy,...

A gritty, voice-driven debut thriller about a man returning home from prison to try to save his family’s shop from vicious poachers, set in the streets and swamps of today’s...

Perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Lynn Painter, this sexy and fun YA-rom com stars a seventeen-year-old girl convinces the resident bad boy to sign a love contract and...

A small farming village in North Sudan wakes up one morning to the news that a little boy has drowned. Soon after, the animals die of a mysterious illness and...

Culture critic Jeremy Gordon makes his literary debut with this whip-smart novel about a young man who learns the devastating truth behind his friend's death, propelling him on an odyssey...

A richly-told debut of mothers, daughters and family secrets from the BBC journalist What will it take to uncover her past? A lost child. When Mivvi is young, her mother...

‘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...

The unmissable debut novel May 1998- Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day's travelling left before they...

Award-winning author, Yrsa Daley-Ward's stylishly intriguing and experimental debut novel exploring family, fate and female fantasies. A darkly whimsical debut about women daring to live and create with impunity. Twin...

An unforgettable story of survival, sisterhood, and the fight for a brighter future. In 1970s Brazil, two teenage sisters are thrust into a chaotic world. Fear and hunger stalk them...

A reserved Chinese American teen at a Southern performing arts boarding school comes into her own under the tutelage of a glamorous new piano teacher. A moving coming-of-age-novel from a...

A sweeping historical love story that brings Torres Straight Islander culture to life. For readers of Anita Heiss. A sweeping, heart-warming and ultimately triumphant story of the life of a...

A statement to the profound loneliness available to only those who commit to loveSingapore, where driven foreign women have a hard time finding work- a Harvard-educated mother struggles to find...

A fresh and taboo-breaking depiction of the Indian diaspora, for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri, Avni Doshi and Claire Kilroy Lina never wanted children, but now there are two lines on...

There's something dangerous in the air. It shimmers in the night, wrapped in the warm, humid breeze. I stand on the kerb outside my cousin's house waiting for my sister.Zillah...

An Observer Best Debut Novel 2025 A debut novel bursting its banks with wondrous storytelling, for fans of David Mitchell, Sunjeev Suhota and Yaa Gyasi 'A writer we will be...

"'The women in this house are the same,' she said. 'When we love, we love with all of ourselves.'" Mai is navigating life in 90s London as a first generation...

'An incredible debut' ROXANE GAY 'Wise and wonderful' PAUL BEATTY Who would you sacrifice on the altar of ambition? Singapore, 1996. Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living...

‘The next time I went for air you were at the surface, sideways, prone and ragdolling in the mouth of a shark. But the shark was holding you gently, do...

Like nothing you've read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa's fiercest and most versatile artists....

An epic and emotional story of three spirited women - a mother, her daughter, their maid - during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong 1941. The wealthy Tang family has...

 '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,...

A dragon queen, a vengeful sea witch, and a mythical titan converge on the underwater city of Tiankawi in this sequel to the no. 1 Sunday Times bestselling epic fantasy, Fathomfolk. A tsunami...

In this sweet sapphic romance about two foodies in love, Vivi meets Lan while studying abroad in Vietnam and they spend the semester unraveling their families' histories―and eating all the...

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....

'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...