Biography & Memoir

Harrow
Joy Williams
A fresh, powerful story of surviving ecological disaster and solidarity between the generations by a giant of American literature

All of You Every Single One
Beatrice Hitchman
An exhilarating queer love story set in early twentieth-century Vienna

Sea Change
Alix Nathan
From the acclaimed author of The Warlow Experiment, the moving story of a mother and daughter separated in Regency England

The Five Wounds
Kirstin Valdez Quade
From an award-winning storyteller comes a stunning debut novel following one family's extraordinary year of love and sacrifice.

A Bookshop in Algiers
Kaouther Adimi
On a quiet backstreet in Algiers is an unremarkable building with a remarkable history …

The War for Gloria
Atticus Lish
From one of America's finest writers: a dramatic and heartbreaking novel about a mother and son's relationship threatened by illness and a f…

Cwen
Alice Albinia
A storm, a disappearance, a band of women and a remote island where anything is possible…

Before the Ruins
Victoria Gosling
One long, hot summer Andy and her friends begin a game that will take their whole lives to play out.

Sunken City
Marta Barone
A young woman retraces the footsteps of her elusive father through one of the darkest periods of Italian history

Essex Girls
Sarah Perry
A defence and celebration of the Essex Girl by the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent

To Walk Alone in the Crowd
Antonio Munoz Molina
The sheer energy of the digital metropolis – superb fiction from a Spanish master at the peak of his powers.

Witness
Alex Wheatle
A Quick Read from a star of Black British fiction, as portrayed recently on Steve McQueen's BBC drama, Small Axe

Libertie
Kaitlyn Greenidge
From the critically acclaimed and Whiting Award-winning author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman comes a book about what freedom actually means – and wh…

Outrageous Horizon
Adrien Bosc
Two hundred and fifty members of a new society, floating, stranded at sea, heading for unknown lands, fleeing a Europe in flames.

The Disconnect
Roisin Kiberd
A brilliant new voice on tech and life: this debut essay collection announces a startling talent

Paradise Block
Alice Ash
An irresistibly strange debut short story collection set in a crumbling tower block

Under the Blue
Oana Aristide
A lead debut novel: a literary thriller about a pandemic, the rise of AI, and how – or why – we might save the human race.

The Memory Monster
Yishai Sarid
A controversial masterpiece, grappling with how generations born after the Holocaust can preserve memory without it becoming a commodity

In the Seeing Hands of Others
Nat Ogle
Original and provocative fiction telling the story of a contentious trial, pieced together in documents from the accused and accuser.

Detransition, Baby
Torrey Peters
A uniquely trans take on love, motherhood, and those exes who you just can't quit