Fiction
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
Eurotrash
Christian Kracht
A rambunctious, tragicomic absurd road trip novel about a wealthy Swiss-German mother and son
Medusa of the Roses
Navid Sinaki
A transgressive, lyrical and deeply moving literary debut about forbidden gay love in Iran
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
Tongueless
Lau Yee-Wa
Provocative contemporary Hong Kong noir, blending together politics and personal rivalry into an explosively exciting debut
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…
A Mountain to the North, A Lake to The South, Paths to the West, A River to the East
László Krasznahorkai
An exquisitely beautiful new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
England is Mine
Nicolas Padamsee
An urgent debut set in multicultural London which takes the reader on a frightening journey into online radicalisation
Mrs Gulliver
Valerie Martin
A short, lush novel about sex, second chances and taking control in a man's world
The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
Soraya Palmer
A dazzling debut novel weaving together Caribbean myth and the contemporary story of multiple generations of one immigrant family
Confrontations
Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen
A bold, unsettling, and heart-breaking story about race, belonging and the legacies of violence
Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
Bliss & Blunder
Victoria Gosling
A breathtakingly fresh retelling of the King Arthur legend for the 21st century.
Queen K
Sarah Thomas
A suspenseful and Ripleyesque debut about a private tutor who discovers the dark world behind Russian wealth
Sanderson’s Isle
James Clarke
A man searches for a stolen child through swinging London and the Lake District in the psychedelic 1960s