Fiction

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

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.

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.

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

The Impostor
Silvina Ocampo
Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form

Don't Cry
Mary Gaitskill
DON'T CRY is Mary Gaitskill's first collection of stories in over ten years, following her previous acclaimed collections, BAD BEHAVIOUR and…

This is Pleasure
Mary Gaitskill
A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season

Act of Grace
Anna Krien
Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2020An exhilarating debut novel from the award-winning author of Night Games

I Give It To You
Valerie Martin
A timeless story of family, war, art, and betrayal from bestselling novelist Valerie Martin

To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life
Hervé Guibert
The cult classic that describes with devastating, darkly comic clarity the experience of living with and dying from AIDS