Fiction

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power. May 1938. The young novelist...

Translated by Padma Viswanathan INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED 2026 On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates...

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep,...

A young woman is drawn into a group of revolutionaries in this stunning novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of FlashlightOn the run after an act of violence against the American...

Two outsiders are drawn together in a powerful, emotionally gripping novel of love and war, from the Booker-shortlisted author of FlashlightIn 1955, a new student arrives at a small college in...

‘That wildly inventive scriptomaniac’ — The Guardian, Australian books to look forward to in 2026  When she finally left, like properly totally completely left, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise....

Translated from the French by Jordan Stump Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on...

'A thought-provoking, rage-inducing revenge tale that is hard to forget' Asia Mackay, author of A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage 'Brutal and unflinching...You won't be able to look away as this...

AN ASTONISHING TALENT' Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds 'STUNNING' Abi Dare, author of The Girl with the Louding Voice 'GORGEOUS' Rochelle Dowden-Lord, author of Lush All across the city, pregnant women...

'This shape-shifting, time-stitching novel grants us special kinds of double-vision: across eras and between species. Under its spell, Amitav Ghosh helps us begin to live multiple lives - to become...

A powerful literary debut from an astonishing new Kiwi voice, focusing on the Indo-Fijian indenture system and how it affected generations across the Pacific. Rajasthan 1888: Avani Rathod, a nomad...

From the acclaimed author of Number One Chinese Restaurant comes an affecting novel about an unforgettable group of friends trying to make their way in the world without losing themselves...

Translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori A witty, deadpan novel about modern relationships, pets, and living as a single woman; for fans of Sayaka Murata, offbeat humor, and sharp social observation...

Translated by Elizabeth Bryer Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the...

‘Exquisite and deeply felt’ VOGUE ‘Beautifully rendered’ GRAZIA ‘Magnificent … melds sharp insight with great heart’ NICOLA DINAN ‘Thoughtful and beautifully compelling’ ALICE WINN A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love and space from...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 ‘Miraculous’ OMAR EL AKKAD ‘Stunning’ MAAZA MENGISTE ‘Beautiful and powerful’ LISA OWENS ‘Wondrous’ NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH An extraordinary, sweeping novel following one man's itinerant search for...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE NIGERIA PRIZE FOR LITERATUREIt is Baby's birthday, but Grace has not seen her first born in twenty-six years. Now a wife, mother to twin daughters...

A beautifully written, poignant historical novel about two travellers undertaking a perilous journey into the 'forbidden kingdom' of Tibet In the mid-nineteenth century, the mountainous kingdom of Tibet is closed...

'Massively entertaining, scorching, brilliant, witty, shocking, spirited and psychologically penetrating' Bernardine Evaristo 'Wise, powerful, gripping and profoundly moving' Antonia Hodgson, author of The Raven Scholar 'A powerhouse writer' Irenosen Okojie,...

A major hardcover compendium of poetry and fiction by the legendary Black American poet of the Harlem Renaissance - Langston Hughes.One of the most important writers to emerge from the...

Translated by Johsun Lee 'Yosep was the only thing in the world, and Yosep's pain was the world's pain . . . ' Yosep is the passion of everyone’s dreams....

Translated by Laurel Taylor and Hitomi Yoshio In Sisters in Yellow, International Booker–shortlisted literary sensation Mieko Kawakami serves us a thrilling, stylish noir of buried secrets and shocking acts. Hana has...

CHOSEN AS A 2026 MUST-READ BOOK BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES, STYLIST, SUNDAY INDEPENDENT, NEW ARAB AND BBC CULTURE 'A spectacular triumph...the Afghan novel I have been eagerly waiting for'...

The devastating and gritty fourth novel from Miles Franklin shortlisted author, Michael Mohammed Ahmad. Some scars can never be seen, but will always be felt . . . long after...

Translated by Flora Thomson-Deveaux "One of the wittiest, most playful, and . . . most alive and ageless books ever written." --Dave Eggers, The New YorkerA revelatory new translation of the...

One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, published in Vintage Classics for the first time as part of a retrospective on the Early Novels of Rushdie'Salman Rushdie's...

An expansive, big-hearted novel about a young woman whose quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut irrevocably alters the fates of the people she loves most. A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK...

Translated by Polly Barton ‘Tender and thrilling it’s Yuzuki at her best’ ELLE A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 IN GUARDIAN, VOGUE, NEW YORK TIMES, FORBES, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES STYLE, ELLE, STYLIST, BBC, GRAZIA, BRICKS MAGAZINE, RADIO TIMES, LITHUB, OPRAH DAILY and DAILY EXPRESS. The...

A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage - a novel that sparkles with wit, intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds collide...

Living, Breathing and Surviving the Postcolonial African Economy No One Leaves Clean is a raw and haunting portrait of modern Ghana, where ambition collides with the crushing realities of urban...

Translated by Robin Myers Simon Lopez Trujillo's 'mind-blowing' (Gabriela Cabezon Camara) debut takes readers into a dry and degraded, fire-prone landscape where humanity has encroached a step too far into...

Salman Rushide's extraordinary literary debut, published in Vintage Classics for the first time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its publication.The extraordinary literary debut of Salman Rushdie. 'A firework of a...

Salman Rushdie's phantasmagoric epic - his second novel - published in Vintage Classics as part of a major retrospective on the Early Novels of Salman RushdieThe novel that set the...

Salman Rushdie's critically acclaimed magical realist study of good and evil, published in Vintage Classics for the first time as part of a retrospective on Rushdie's Early NovelsDiscover Salman Rushdie's...

Winner of a Philippine National Book Award ‘Yñiga is not just a novel; it is an echo of people, of families, who, generation after generation, confront the relentless cycle of...

Translated by Michelle Mirabella Motherhood is terrifying, thinks Laura, feeling small and helpless as she holds her newborn daughter. Instead of joy, she feels fear, and then anger at her...

Translated by Michael Day A powerful novel of self-discovery from the author of No Longer Human - now available in English!Young Susumu Serikawa is at a turning point. Should he continue his...

Intimate and epic, elegiac and profoundly moving: a tour de force destined to become a classic of contemporary literature 'Set to be a standout novel of 2026 ... Brutal, funny...

From Giller Prize and O. Henry Award winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labour and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon...

In the misty mountains of Darjeeling, a landslide entraps the guests and staff of a dilapidated hotel. Cooped up inside, two men exchange lingering glances. For carefree Neville, this is...

For every bullet shot by an oppressor there springs to life a star Hasan lives an idyllic childhood of abundance- of pomegranates and cricket and ostensible serenity. This illusory veneer...

A boisterous tribute to her home town that crackles with the chaos of Pakistani political life' - The Times'Deftly woven and provocative ... Shamsie's blistering humour and ear for dialogue scorches...

'Beautifully written in cunning, punning, glancing prose' - Independent'A whirlwind - Owes plenty to Salman Rushdie and some to Hollywood - Exuberant, knowingly exotic and deceptively serious' - Guardian'Kamila Shamsie has created...

A new novel about the enduring trauma of police brutality by the award-winning author of Mother Country She’d gotten no trigger warning. And her entire life, she wanted to scream...

Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by the surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, The Enigma of Arrival tells the story of a young Indian from the Caribbean arriving in post-imperial...

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he has just inherited a plot of land from his estranged white grandfather. He travels...

Translated by Stephen Snyder A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - sparking an...

A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twists on fairy tale.Inspired by horror fiction,...

Rin is flying back from her honeymoon. She's madly in love with her husband, Shin, and the future looks rosy. Then Shin disappears to the bathroom while he thinks Rin...

Following the international success of her debut Riambel, Hein's heart-wrenching new novel reveals the violence and beauty inherent in her native Mauritius. Tamarin Bay, Mauritius, is a travel agent's paradise:...