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WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 'Breathtaking' — Elle'Powerhouses of feeling and depth' — Mary Gaitskill'Sharp and vital' — Daisy Johnson'Excellent' — Margaret Atwood An ex-boxer turned nail salon worker...

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens — on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles —the narrator of The Sellout is raised by...

Bhima, the unforgettable main character of Thrity Umrigar’s beloved national bestseller The Space Between Us, returns in this triumphant sequel — a poignant and compelling novel in which the former...

'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother. He...

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...

The #1 New York Times bestseller; NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES ON AMAZON PRIME Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the...

A deliciously dark satire on modern privilege from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Eileen (and enfant terrible of American fiction) Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR THE TIMES '100 BEST SUMMER READS' 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020 Brooklyn, 2001. It is the evening...

From the bestselling author of Homegoingcomes an epic novel from the heart of contemporary America. As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey...

Could you put your life on hold for twelve years?  A stunning love story about family, injustice and marriage, and three people at once bound and separated by forces beyond...

Read the searing first novel from the celebrated author of Beloved, which immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression 1940s Ohio.Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays...

Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, Toni Morrison is one of the finest novelists of our times.Lured South by tales of buried treasure, Milkman embarks on an odyssey back home.As a boy,...

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story...

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...

'The funniest, most poignant novel of the year' - Vogue For fans of Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang, Disorientation is an uproarious and big-hearted satire – alive with sharp edges, immense warmth, and a cast...

Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the...

Racism, but "managed" through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacologicalLove, despite everything Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest,...

Nao lives in Tokyo. She is sixteen, and has decided to write a diary before she kills herself. She has plenty of material — school bullies, depressed parents — but...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35 Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone...

An epic story of love, war and redemption, set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local...

In this 'razor-sharp' and 'dangerously hilarious' novel that "hooks readers from the beginning" (Los Angeles Times), a trans woman reenters life on the outside after more than twenty years in...

VINTAGE CLASSICS' LANGSTON HUGHES A collection of vibrant and incisive short stories depicting the sometimes humorous, but more often tragic interactions between Black people and white people in America in...

An electrifying and unnerving novel for our times, Leave the World Behind elegantly captures our age of anxiety and shows how the most terrifying situations are never far from reality...

'Nobody's ever really given us such a revealing look at New York's Dominican population before . . . Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights...

'A hard-hitting and unflinching novel from a bold new writer' — Bernardine Evaristo In Baxter's Beach, Barbados, Lala's grandmother Wilma tells the story of the one-armed sister, a cautionary tale...

A wry and poignant debut novel about a man's search for true connection that is "both knowing and cutting, a satire of internet culture that is also a moving portrait...

A Faulkner-esque Classic of Trinidadian literature — No Pain Like This Body is a lost masterpiece of contemporary fiction.WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONIQUE ROFFEYIn the Caribbean, at the beginning of...

Introduced by Margo Jefferson, this forgotten novel by the Pulitzer-winning poet is a miniature wonder, chronicling one woman's coming-of-age in 1940s Chicago.What, what, am I to do with all of...

A wry and insightful portrait of contemporary life, this is the much-anticipated follow-up to the award-winning novel Chemistry.Joan is a thirty-something ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital....

***2020 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction******2020 Story Prize Finalist******Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction***An intimate, irresistible collection of stories about the hidden desires of generations of church-going...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2020FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD 2020 ** The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller ** Brilliant, heartbreaking and highly original, Ocean Vuong's...

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound...

A profoundly moving story on the bonds of family and history — this is Beloved for the 21st century. Effia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One...

An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for and...

From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Long Way Gone. A powerful novel about young people living at the margins of society, struggling to replace the homes they...

Winner of the 2022 Women’s Prize If you let it — if you listen — a book could change your life. After his father dies, Benny Oh finds he can...

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....

Write this down: Cara Romero wants to work. When Cara left the Dominican Republic for America, she thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest...

Unmissable, uplifting debut fiction — a richly mythic love story set in the lush landscape of modern Trinidad Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the city to seek...

Brace yourself for Lapvona — a rollercoaster ride of depravation and perversion in the singular new novel from Ottessa Moshfegh, authorMy Year of Rest and Relaxation Welcome to Lapvona. In...

From one of our most provocative literary talents, a novel of haunting metaphysical suspenseWhile on her daily walk with her dog in the woods near her home, Vesta comes across...

Winner of The Center for Fiction's 2021 First Novel PrizeIn this vivid, darkly funny and beautifully rendered debut novel, Kirstin Valdez Quade brings to life the struggles of five generations...

With the verve and bite of Ottessa Moshfegh and the barbed charm of Nancy Mitford, Marlowe Granados's stunning debut brilliantly captures a summer of striving in New York CityIsa Epley...

Get Out meets Parasite in this chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centred around a killing at a full-contact haunted escape room On 27 April 1997, four...

Hussam and Wassim are teenaged boys living in Syria during America's invasion of Iraq in the early 2000s. When a surprise discovery results in tragedy, their lives, and those of...

A debut novel from a rising literary star that brings the modern queer and Indigenous experience into sharp relief. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, this sharp and witty literary mystery explores America's painful legacy of lynching When hog thief Junior Junior Milam is found brutally murdered, the police...

A groundbreaking, yet controversial novel of the Harlem Renaissance about a young, dark-skinned Black woman reckoning with colourism as she navigates 1920s Harlem, reissued and repackaged for the Herald Classics line....

VINTAGE CLASSICS' HARLEM RENAISSANCE SERIES Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'White peoples maybe mistreats you an'...