Fiction

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...

Things change; we have to recognise that; the world will not stay still. What we must hope is that the new is better and stronger than the old. Anno Domini...

Translated by Sarah Booker and Robin MyersThe dazzling, award-winning novel from one of Mexico's greatest living writers, translated into English for the first time A city is always a cemetery....

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZEA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDAND AND NEW YORK TIMESFor girls, becoming women was...

'A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness' - Financial Times'Powerful, epic yet skilfully controlled - Shamsie's voice is clear and compelling, with a welcome sparseness' - Guardian'Completely authentic, complex, and breath-stopping' -...

Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020 A family story about the unbreakable connection between the living and the dead Set in Iran in the decade following the 1979 Islamic...

From International Booker Prize finalist Shokoofeh Azar, a stylistically audacious and emotionally powerful novel about one large, complicated family and a passionate love affair. Spanning fifty years in the history...

A suspenseful tale of abduction, obsession and lost identity that spans Vietnam, East Berlin, West German and Paris - and fantasies of Catherine Deneuve. A young Vietnamese woman is invited...

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...

South London, 1981: Daphne is the only Black girl in her class. All she wants is to keep her head down, preferably in a book. The easiest way to survive...

"'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...

NO LAW, NO GUN, NO GOD COULD STOP ME NOW. ONLY HIM. THE KOREAN CULT CLASSIC PHENOMENON A ONCE-IN-A-GENERATION HIT WITH OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION COPIES SOLD 'A...

'Vivid and precise, deliciously cool-eyed, immensely readable' Jonathan Franzen 'Evokes the narrative power of classic Anne Tyler' Janice Y.K. Lee, author of The Piano Teacher Joan Liang's life is a...

Sisters Rei, Kiki and Ai have always had to look out for one another - but life has taken them on very different paths. Eldest daughter Rei is spiky and sensible, distracting...

From the prize-winning author of The Giant Dark comes a beautiful exploration of the ties that bind us and the scars they leave when they break. Aliyah and Ava arrive in England...

'It's time we name our kingdom!' he shouted over the wind. 'I say we call this place Happy Land. If this ain't the land of happy people, then where is...

Translated by Michael Berry "She knew that if she didn't say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging." The Running Flame opens...

Salim has spent most of his life on the east coast of Africa, living and working with his family. When he sets out to build a new life for himself,...

In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie...

From Yorkshire to Afghanistan, Ours are the Streets is a poignant and powerful story of political radicalization by Sunjeev Sahota, author of Man Booker Prize shortlisted The Year of the Runaways. When Imtiaz...

* A New York Times Editor’s Choice* Best Book of 2023 by Esquire, Apple Books, HuffPost, GQ, Cosmopolitan, and Goodreads.* Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel* VCU Cabell...

A young Muslim scholar living in Los Angeles, stuck in the mire of a flatlining academic career, decides to give up and marry rich, committing herself to 100 dates in...

Translated by Polly Barton LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE An extraordinary, thrilling novel about sex, disability and powerBorn with a congenital muscle disorder, Shaka Isawa has severe spine curvature...

Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Samuel Wagan Watson, Dancing Home is part road-movie, part 'Koori-noir' from an original and darkly funny new voice.'When he was...

Translated by Scott E. Myers Mu Cao is a bold, pioneering Chinese novelist who dares to challenge the status quo—living openly gay in China and shedding a strong light on...

A Biomythography A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for...

A masterful story of friendship and how much we're willing to risk to possess one of life's most treasured mercies- a second chance. Ocean Vuong returns with an achingly beautiful...

Translated by Ruth Martin A captivating, polyphonic novel of one family's flight from and return to Iran.1979. Behsad, a young communist revolutionary, fights with his friends for a new order...

A bold and electrifying story of a family in which three generations of gay men in India fight for love and dignity against the currents of their times, from the...

A luminous, beautifully observed novel about the people we once were, and the people we can become – if only we're brave enough to try. 1990: Indu and Vijay leave...

Willy Chandra whom we first met in 'Half a Life' is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s,...

Poorhara is the story of nineteen-year-old Erin, her older cousin Star/Whetu and an impromptu road trip taken over a few days. With the demands and heartbreaks of whanau, poverty and...

Translated by Sinan Antoon Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025, this critically acclaimed Arabic novel invites English readers into the complex lives of Palestinians living in Israel. What if...

The fiercest wars are fought between siblings. Tara, a successful Dehli lawyer, is everything her younger brother isn't: dedicated, independent, thriving. When their beloved father retires, he summons them to...

The new novel from the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature - 'a maestro' (Guardian). A captivating story of the intertwined lives of three young people coming-of-age in...

“A stunning chronicle of an Indian woman’s coming-of-age... This is electrifying.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review “Is this a ghost story?” Meena asked the barber’s wife who told the tale. “I don’t...

For readers of Pachinko and Queenie, a funny, sexy, and heart-wrenching literary debut that explores exile, ambition, and hope across three generations of Palestinian American women. Arabella gets an unexpected...

A radiant novel of the longing that blooms between two boys over the course of one summer – about family, desire, and what we inherit – from celebrated author Tash...

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native American author Mona Susan Power, spanning three generations of Yanktonai Dakota women...

New to our Vintage Classics Murakami Collector's Library - a newly translated, unabridged edition of Murakami's most mind-bendingly brilliant novel. A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey...

In this darkly ironic novel, a dead man walks back through four generations of family estrangements to recover his lost identity.The journey will be long and difficult, one thousand miles....

Translated by Michael Berry Fang Fang’s Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining...

From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in . . . New York City, 1940s. In...

Translated by E. Yaewon, Paige Aniyah Morris Like a long winter's dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey...

The Sun at Eight or Nine takes one back to the hinterland of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), a time of tantrums, political or personal, with the story of a mother...

Translated by Deborah Smith From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual From...

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out...

Translated by Rijula Das A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India. Beggar’s Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival...

Translated by Morgan Giles For readers of BREASTS AND EGGS and CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN comes Junko Takase's Akutagawa Prize-winning novel about the pressures of modern life, and the pleasure of...