Novella

A merciless tyrant forces an ordinary woman to rescue his children from a malevolent magical wood in this eerie, twisted fable. A world of uncanny creatures, deadly beauty, and unthinkable...

A surprising and moving novella about a misunderstood neurodivergent girl from one of Japan's most acclaimed young writers, the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt A sensitive and...

Moses Ose Utomi returns to his Forever Desert series with The Truth of the Aleke, continuing his epic fable about truth, falsehood, and the shackles of history. The Aleke is...

Three classic novels by renowned feminist writer and activist Nawal El Saadawi. A peasant family is torn apart by a village mayor and his lackeys in God Dies by the...

A woman moves to live with her in-laws in the Japanese countryside in this haunting and surreal novel featuring a mysterious relative, an elusive hairy creature, and lots of strange...

The life of the salmon is a predictable one: swimming upstream to the place of its birth to spawn, and then to die. This is the story of a salmon...

Nabila Yasmeen is in her eighties. She lives alone with over a hundred plants that she keeps in pots because she can’t bear to put them in the ground. In...

A witty, dizzying literary caper about books, travel, and translation — perfect for fans of David Mitchell and the work of Hideaki Anno This delightfully surreal novella follows the global...

WINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY LGBTQ SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY/HORROR AWARD The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society-and must reclaim the memories of their...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding the events of Foul Lady Fortune and following a familiar cast of characters from the These Violent Delights Duet!...

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Fonda Lee comes Untethered Sky, an epic fantasy fable about the pursuit of obsession at all costs. Ester’s family was torn apart when a manticore...

An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in this tale of community and female empowerment by Binti's Nnedi Okorafor"She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel of...

Translated by Marilyn Booth.An astoundingly powerful novella weaving together a series of devastatingly honest confessions, from a prize-winning Lebanese author.In an unnamed country torn apart by war, six strangers are...

A genre-smashing collection of short stories, exploring larger themes of race, violence, and love – all told with sly humour. Welcome to Cross River, Maryland. Established by the leaders of...

Molly Southbourne returns with a vengeance.Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind?A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies that remember murder, one of them left alive....

Sharp and funny, brilliant and prescient: a new collection of short stories that offer a dazzling insight into the subjects of race, grief, apology, and American history.Danielle Evans is widely...

Translated by Howard GoldblattIn Change, Mo Yan, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature, personalises the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in...

Flowers for the Sea is a dark, dazzling debut novella that reads like Rosemary's Baby by way of Octavia E. ButlerWe are a people who do not forget.Survivors from a...

A poetic, ambitious debut novella that explores a fantastical, bio-cyberpunk city through the lens of several interconnected stories, in the vein of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities. Debut author S. Qiouyi...

A dazzling and wonderful fantasy stand alone romance from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi! Would you sacrifice the love in your heart to save your soul mate? A...

Translated by Lisa DillmanKingdom Cons, Signs Preceding the End of the World, The Transmigration of BodiesThe Mexico we hear of in the news — the drug cartels, migration and senseless...

Winner of the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Stella PrizeSparked by the description of a ‘Malay trollope’ in W. Somerset Maugham’s story, ‘The Four Dutchmen’, Mirandi...

From the award-winning author of Stone Sky Gold Mountain, this stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories exploring the inner...

A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Toni Morrison, in a stand-alone, slim Chatto hardback for the first time, with...

The war mammoths are back — with tigers and ghost stories and old loves — in this stunning standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and FortuneThe cleric Chih finds...

Every time she bleeds a murderous clone is born. Experience the horror of Tade Thompson's The Murders of Molly Southbourne.The rule is simple: don’t bleed. For as long as Molly...

A Te Herenga Waka Classic They have left me. The door is locked. The room is entirely bare. . . . Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly...

Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi's New York Times bestselling Shatter Me trilogy, this book collects the final two companion novellas, Shadow Me and Reveal Me, leading up to the...

The alliance between ants and dinosaurs created a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price — a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then...

The Tensorate Series brings together four genre-defining silkpunk novellas by acclaimed author Neon Yang.The Tensorate Series, which has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus, and Lambda Literary...

With the heart of an Atwood tale and the visuals of a classic Asian period drama The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a tightly and lushly written narrative about...

In this intricate fantasy novella, a nonbinary refugee practitioner of blood magic finds a strange disease that causes political rifts in their new homeland.Firuz-e Jafari is one of the fortunate...

A teen infected with a mysterious parasite must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home — or stay and help rebuild her community. A moving hopepunk story...

A stunning, shattering debut novel about two Black British artists falling in and out of loveTwo young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British,...

Secrets and revenge converge in this chilling tale from a breakout new Latin American voiceLucas returns to his childhood home in rural Ecuador to discover that it has been taken...

Translated by Haydn TrowellA dream-like, emotionally charged tale by a bold new voice in Japanese fiction.Natsuko's husband Taichi was forced to stop working eight years ago by the sudden onset...

A powerful literary novella from award-winning author Tade Thompson, about obsession, the creation of art and the many ways in which the urge to make can also turn into an...

Just like the brief life and oeuvre of iconic Bulgarian poet Petya Dubarova, every page of this short novel pulsates with feelings.In Letter to Petya Dubarova, South African poet and...

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over...

The murderous clone-ballad of Molly Southbourne will come to its ultimate end. Long after the loss of the original, the last mollys feel their end approaching.Whenever Molly Southbourne bled, a...

An exhilarating and expansive new novel about fathers and sons, faith and friendship from Caleb Azumah Nelson, the no.1 bestselling, award-winning author of Open Water The one thing that can...

Translated by Arunava SinhaIn Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The...

Gayl Jones's long career began with her blistering 1975 debut, Corregidora, which was edited by Toni Morrison, and she is increasingly recognised as one of the great literary writers of...

Moses Ose Utomi's debut novella, The Lies of the Ajungo, follows one boy’s epic quest to bring water back to his city and save his mother’s life. Prepare to enter...

Translated by Kerim YasarAn off-kilter, darkly ironic novella from a Japanese literary star - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella seriesIsolated in his Tokyo apartment, seventeen-year-old Haruo spends all his...

Rosa, also known as Red Riding Hood, is done with wolves and woods.Hou Yi the Archer is tired, and knows she’s past her prime.They would both rather just be retired,...

The Ignyte and Locus Award finalist, and Crawford and Hugo Award-winning series continues as Chih finds themself in the riverlands, home to near-immortal warriors and ancient feuds.Wandering cleric Chih of...

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