Fiction

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...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021 'The boldest debut of the year . . . It is refreshing to discover a new author...

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...

One of Patricia Grace's most popular novels, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one — carrying her family's hopes.Missy is the observer...

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...

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...

Lydia is the favourite child of Marilyn and James Lee; a girl who inherited her mother's bright blue eyes and her father's jet-black hair. Her parents are determined that Lydia...

An audacious and beautiful novel that is both a unique family saga and a spellbinding story of the country of Kenya Kenya, 2007. Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is...

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,...

Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching...

The House Next to the Factory shows a changing India over three decades through the lens of one family and the house that they live in.Life in the house is...

Song of the Sun God is about the wisdom, mistakes and sacrifices of our past that enable us to live more freely in the future. Nala and Rajan, a young...

'An unusual, intense, experimental novel' Daily Mail In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape a life of destitution. She leaves New York City for Lyra,...

This is the age of vice, where pleasure and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill New Delhi, 3 a.m. A speeding Mercedes jumps the...

A powerful novel about an intersex Nigerian teenager and the courage to be yourself Raised as a boy in a grand but unhappy family in Nigeria, Otolorin Akinro escapes to...

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...

Feverishly energetic and playfully creepy, an unforgettable debut that hurtles through the ghostly secrets of Vietnamese history Two young Vietnamese women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are...

Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean He thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke made light show, there must be a way for memories to...

Translated by Sam Taylor Watch us Dance combines the youth, vibrancy and allure of Andre Aciman with the historical fiction force of Maggie Shipstead, and the exquisite sense of place...

TWO SISTERS. THREE CONTINENTS. FOUR DECADES. ONE DEVASTATING SECRET… Nasrin and Sabrina are two sisters, who on the face of things, live successful and enviable lives in London and New...

PEN/Hemingway Award For Debut Novel Finalist​Shortlisted for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeA “rich, ambitious debut novel” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the ways in...

Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, this is a gorgeously written novel about a family searching for the truth hidden in their past and...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “A knockout of a novel…we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021’s best.” —O, The Oprah Magazine I often wonder if we...

“A fascinating epic tale.” — The New York Post An Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives...

The Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION FAMILY CAN HOLD YOU TOGETHER. AND TEAR YOU APART. Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember...

A glorious, sweeping novel about family, migration and the search for a place to belong With every misfortune there is a blessing and within every blessing, the seeds of misfortune,...

A wide-ranging and affecting debut novel about family and identity from an award-winning historian, perfect for fans of Bernardine Evaristo or Zadie Smith.1981. Khalid Quraishi is one of the lucky...

An immersive, kaleidoscopic debut for fans of Homegoing and Pachinko: one family's search for a better life through four continents, four generations and a century of change. THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA...

Four lives, entwined forever by decisions made in a time of conflict. But what happens decades later when they unexpectedly converge once more? Trang and Quynh - sisters who leave...

From the Stonewall Honor-winning author of Like a Love Story comes a sweeping story of three generations of boys in the same Iranian family. 2019. Moud is an out gay...

From the 2014 Caine Prize winner comes an astonishing debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, about a daughter's quest to save her motherAyosa is a wandering spirit joyous,...

A victorian epic transplanted to Japan, following a Korean family of immigrants through eight decades and four generations. 'This is a captivating book ... Min Jin Lee's novel takes us...

The first volume of a new trilogy telling the saga of one French family between 1946 and 2016. Alsace, 1944. Mathilde finds herself falling deeply in love with Amine Belhaj,...

‘A powerful family saga’ OBSERVER ‘Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient… a masterpiece’ TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis THREE WOMEN. ONE BLOOD. A birth mother Grace, growing up in segregated Virginia, is only a...

A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places...