Biography & Memoir
Lush
Rochelle Dowden-Lord
A mysterious invitation to drink the oldest bottle of wine in the world – what could possibly go wrong?
Mrs Gulliver
Valerie Martin
A short, lush novel about sex, second chances and taking control in a man's world
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Constance Debré
France's most incendiary star continues her ascent with an excavation of her famous family's legacy
England is Mine
Nicolas Padamsee
An urgent debut set in multicultural London which takes the reader on a frightening journey into online radicalisation
Shape of an Apostrophe
Uttama Kirit Patel
A fresh and taboo-breaking depiction of the Indian diaspora, for readers of Jhumpa Lahiri, Avni Doshi and Claire Kilroy
Wild Ground
Emily Usher
A working-class Romeo and Juliet that will break your heart, this bittersweet debut novel follows two teenagers whose all-consuming relationship is te…
The Assault
Harry Mulisch
The classic that sold over 200,000 copies in the Netherlands: a richly crafted novel of post-war innocence and guilt
Dengue Boy
Michel Nieva
Borges meets Samanta Schweblin and Mariana Enríquez in this boldly imaginative punk dystopia
Night Swimmers
Roisin Maguire
A funny and moving family story with an unconventional heroine in a quirky coastal community – Olive Kitteridge or The Shipping News on the edge on th…
Dealing with the Dead
Alain Mabanckou
From one of Africa's most celebrated novelists: a ghostly reckoning with Congolese history for readers of Lincoln in the Bardo
Savage Theories
Pola Oloixarac
A star of Latin American literature's controversial and dazzling debut novel published in the UK for the first time
Eurotrash
Christian Kracht
A rambunctious, tragicomic absurd road trip novel about a wealthy Swiss-German mother and son
Scenes of Subjection
Saidiya Hartman
The groundbreaking debut by the award-winning author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments now revised and updated
Medusa of the Roses
Navid Sinaki
A transgressive, lyrical and deeply moving literary debut about forbidden gay love in Iran
Concerning the Future of Souls
Joy Williams
An incisive crash course in philosophy, religion, literature and culture from Pulitzer Prize finalist Joy Williams
Jungle House
Julianne Pachico
A young woman is brought up in the jungle by artificial intelligence – Never Let Me Go meets Lord of the Flies
The Black Orb
Ewhan Kim
A piercingly dark and surreal speculative novel on mass panic, disaster response and modern masculinity
The Disenchantment
Celia Bell
Two women in seventeenth-century Paris are drawn into the volatile and mysterious Affair of the Poisons after a bid to keep their passionate romance a…
Bliss & Blunder
Victoria Gosling
A breathtakingly fresh retelling of the King Arthur legend for the 21st century.