Speculative fiction

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...

They are looking forward to a summer they'll never forget . . . We Are Hunted by Tomi Oyemakinde is a compulsive speculative thriller about the lengths we go to for...

"A love story spanning multiple millenniums, life-forms and variations on immortality, the book posits Victorian poetry as a weapon of empire, insists on nature's resilience in the face of genocide,...

In this dark and deeply radical novel, Dambudzo Marechera offers a visceral account of a photojournalist's entanglement with a terrorist organisation. In an unnamed totalitarian state, the members of Black...

'This book has it all . . . a fireworks display from two very talented storytellers' Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe and Song of Achilles Co-written by two...

That day at the First Church of Gracie changed everything for Gem Echols, and not just because Marian and Poppy betrayed them. Forced to use the Ouroboros knife on Zephyr,...

Kinning, the sequel to Nisi Shawl’s acclaimed debut novel Everfair, continues the stunning alternate history where barkcloth airships soar through the sky, varied peoples build a new society together, and...

What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it works out?'A stunner of a debut' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS'Exhilaratingly good' KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall...

Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology, and...

An epic, spellbinding novel of rebellion, redemption, power and humanity, and of a Black community finding freedom to live an ordinary life of love and pain in America's darkest days....

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...

A 2024 literary highlight in the Sunday Times, BBC, Grazia, Dazed, Sunday Express, GQ, i-D, Stylist, Bookseller and Literary Friction A BOY MEETS A GIRL. THE PAST MEETS THE FUTURE....

From the acclaimed author of Sunday Times no. 1 bestseller Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, a YA novel of hope, love and redemption about Liz's life after life. ONE OF...

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...

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the...

In this stunningly inventive and thought-provoking collection, Mykaela Saunders poses the question: what might country, community and culture look like in the Tweed if Gooris reasserted their sovereignty? Each of...

The 25th anniversary hardback edition of the stylish debut novel by the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad that wowed critics and readers and marked the emergence of...

In the one tumultuous day, Ch’anzu loses hir job and finds wife Scarlet in bed with a stranger. As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch’anzu turns to hir charismatic...

How long can you run from a lie, if that lie is what your life is founded on? In a near future all identity information is encoded in digital language....

This tale of motherly love blends the page-turning urgency of The Girl in the Red Coat with the political force of Slumdog Millionaire to create a searing parable of a...

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...

The second volume in a vibrant and compellingly told trilogy by one of science fiction's most engaging new voices - perfect for fans of N. K. Jemisin's THE FIFTH SEASON,...

'In the ongoing contest over which dystopian classic is most applicable to our time... for sheer peculiar prescience, Butler's novel may be unmatched' — NEW YORKER The Patternmaster is all...

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time; Glamour; Real Simple; Good Housekeeping; Marie Claire; Town & Country Nestled in New York’s Hudson Valley is a luxury...

Climate catastrophe, police brutality, white genocide, totalitarian rule and the erasure of black history provide the backdrop for stories of love, courage and hope. In this unflinching new anthology, twelve...

In this powerful finale to the award-winning WORMWOOD trilogy, life in the newly independent city state of Rosewater isn't everything its citizens were expecting...Mayor Jacques finds that debts incurred during...

WELCOME TO VIRTUAL CENTRE, WHERE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CONVERGE.A collection of science fiction that borders on science possible, Virtual Centre and Other Science Fiction Stories brings to you...

Lucinda Roy’s explosive first foray into speculative fiction blends The Underground Railroad and The Handmaid’s Tale in a novel of subjugation, resistance, and hope.The second Civil War, the Sequel, came...

An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, by the Man Booker-winner Ben Okri.In a world uncomfortably like our own, a young woman called Amalantis is arrested for asking a question....

NPR Book of the Year 2020A startling debut about class and race, Lakewood evokes a terrifying world of medical experimentation — part The Handmaid’s Tale, part The Immortal Life of...

A collection of award-winning hard science fiction short stories. A Financial Times Book of the Year From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories –...

Ken Liu's second collection of speculative fiction bestrides worlds real and ethereal.From the title story's fantastical inter-dimensional assassins to the steampunk dystopia of "Grey Rabbit, Crimson Mare, Coal Leopard" burrowing...

Danged Black Thing is an extraordinary collection of stories about love and migration, gender and class, patriarchy and womanhood, from a remarkable and original voice. Traversing the West and Africa,...

Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa begins a thrilling new epic fantasy series of violent conquest, buried histories and forbidden magic. In the city of Bassa, Danso is a clever scholar...

To discover the truth about his mother, Han must leave his village and venture to a group of islands which hold the answer to a long-held secret.Han was contemplative. Nothing...

New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting to ask how artificial intelligence will change our world over the...

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel...

An exclusive foiled collector's edition of theinternational No.1 bestseller of TikTok fame, clocking up 60 million views and counting!Contains never-seen-before bonus material and a brand-new interview between Adam Silvera and...

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...

Translated by Tiffany TsaoHappy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories – a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often drawing on Norman Erikson...

Winner of the inaugural Nommo Award for Best Novel, Africa's first award for speculative fictionJohn W. Campbell Award finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel'A magnificent tour de force' — Adrian...

A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of AfrofuturismIt's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young...

For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid’s Tale, in Dark Lullaby a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored....

Translated by Margaret MitsutaniYoshiro celebrated his hundredth birthday many years ago, but every morning before work he still goes running in the park with his rent-a-dog. He is one of...

Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes...

This sequel to PARABLE OF THE SOWER by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler feel like a prophetic nod to our current world. If you were glued to The Handmaid’s Tale...

StoriesFor readers of David Wong, Paul Beatty, and George Saunders, an electrifying and wholly original collection of satirical stories that create a bitingly funny portrait of American racism, capitalism, and...

On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green...

The Kaul siblings battle their rival clans for honour and control over an East Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis in Jade Legacy, the page-turning conclusion to the Green Bone Saga.Jade, the mysterious...

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly...