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Looking for a new book? Browse the latest fiction releases.
Kirsten Alexander
A story about intergenerational friendship between women, coercive relationships and power, and the endless possibilities new connections can bring.
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Robert Lukins
A brilliant, slyly humorous dissection of wealth, power and the tragedies even money can't fix for fans of The Secret History, The Corrections and Succession.
Morgan Talty
From the award-winning author of Night of the Living Rez, Morgan Talty's debut novel, Fire Exit, is a masterful and unforgettable story of family, legacy, bloodlines, culture, and…
Susan Abulhawa
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppression
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Madeleine Ryan
From the author of A Room Called Earth, a brilliant new novel about the mess that comes before salvation.
Hiromi Kawakami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
An inventive and immersive novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.
Leonie Norrington, Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs, Djawa Burarrwanga, Djawundil Maymuru
A powerful, unique novel based on the oral history of the Yolngu people from north-east Arnhem Land that tells the story of a grandmother who stops at nothing to protect…
Pola Oloixarac, Roy Kesey (trans.)
A star of Latin American literature's controversial and dazzling debut novel published in the UK for the first time
Rachel Louise Driscoll
A captivating treasure of a novel about Clemmie, a young Victorian Egyptologist, and her entanglement with the legend of the goddess, Nephthys.
Lauren Ling Brown
How far would you go to belong?
Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)
A novel about the birth and death of Johannes the fisherman - a key work in 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse's oeuvre.
Joanna Jenkins
Taking on law's old boys club can have deadly results... A gripping thriller from a bold new voice about misogyny, corruption and the legal industry.
Bron Bateman
These 18 stories of courage will have you weeping, laughing and celebrating moments of bravery.
Tetsuya Ayukawa, Bryan Karetnyk (trans.)
This prize-winning railway murder mystery from Japan is a crime classic perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Seichō Matsumoto.
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William Golding
The iconic classic in a luxurious anniversary edition, with a foreword by Stephen King.
Alex Hay
Nothing is quite as it seems in Victorian high society, in the twisty and original new novel from the author of The Housekeepers...
Joseph Roth, David Le Vay (trans.)
Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands
Hideo Yokoyama, Louise Heal Kawai (trans.)
The new title from the author of Six Four, in which a down-at-heel architect must solve a beguiling mystery
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Julie Mae Cohen
The brand new sharply funny thriller about female friendship, empowerment and becoming a better person through murder.
Jane Caro
From the Walkley Award winning journalist, social commentator and author comes a gripping domestic thriller with a moral dilemma at its core.
Helen Phillips
From critically acclaimed, prize-winning author Helen Phillips comes an urgent, compelling and deeply human novel that asks: how do we raise our children for a future that is unknown, that…
Keigo Higashino, Giles Murray (trans.)
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino's best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a case where hidden history, and impossible crime, are linked by nearly invisible threads…
Michael Trant
Someone is stalking gold hunters. Now a bushman is stalking them . . .
Emma Pignatiello
An Australian romantic suspense full of witty banter, simmering tension and a larger-than-life family dynasty that will become your new obsession.
Nicci French
The unputdownable new thriller from bestselling author Nicci French.
Louise Doughty
The gripping new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard.
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David McCloskey
Bouncing between the corridors of Langley and the Kremlin, the thrilling new novel by David McCloskey explores the nature of friendship in a faithless business, and what it means to…
Naguib Mahfouz, Peter Theroux (trans.)
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Naguib Mahfouz, offers this epic story of a single alley in Cairo and the generations that passed through it.
Teju Cole
The new novel from the author of the celebrated Open City - a powerful and masterful exploration of what makes a meaningful life in a world of violence and wonder.
Kate Greathead
This is the story of one life. But George is a thousand men.
Tomoka Shibasaki, Polly Barton (trans.)
Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic novella of memory and thwarted hope: part of our Japanese novella series, showcasing the best contemporary Japanese writing
Joseph O'Connor
The Contessa Giovanna Landini takes on Gestapo chief Paul Hauptmann in a daring mission in Occupied Rome
Leonid Tsypkin, Jamey Gambrell (trans.)
Experience the absurdities and tragedies of life in the Soviet Union in this extraordinary story collection by the lost Russian master behind cult classic Summer in Baden-Baden.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Behind the front lines of a crusade to scour the world of magic, the crew of a field hospital confront the horrors of war. A companion novel to Adrian Tchaikovsky's…
Gill Hornby
The Sunday Times bestselling novel that delves into why Cassandra burned a treasure trove of letters written by her sister, Jane Austen. Soon to be a major series on BBC…
Maryrose Cuskelly
An engrossing and provocative exploration of privilege, hypocrisy and justice by the bestselling author of The Cane.
Geoff Parkes
A missing woman . . . a townful of suspects. The haunting debut crime novel that transports the reader back to the 1980s and a small rural town in New…
Freida McFadden
From New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a story about a young woman running from her past. But when she's taken in by an older couple it soon…
Kylie Ladd
A beautifully told and thought-provoking novel about a mix-up that leaves two children wondering who they really are and where they belong . . .
Lisa Genova
From the bestselling author of Still Alice and Inside the O'Briens comes a breathless, riveting novel about a young woman diagnosed with bipolar disorder who rejects the stability and approval…
William Saroyan
A Lost Great American Master: meet Jack Kerouac's inspiration in these heart-expanding tales of immigrant life in 1930s USA, introduced by superfan Stephen Fry.
Ali Hazelwood
A competitive diver and an ace swimmer jump into forbidden waters in this steamy college romance from the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis.
Emma Knight
Witty, warm and wildly unputdownable, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus is at once a love story and an irresistible mystery, a celebration of female friendship, and a study…
Jacquie Pham
One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die.
Nnedi Okorafor
A sweeping tale about family, culture and identity, and a breathtaking examination of the relationship between writer and reader ... and robots
Grady Hendrix
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is an original Southern Gothic horror from New York Times bestselling author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group…
Rachel Cooke
A fond, fascinated look at women's friendship through the fiction, diaries, and letters of friends
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Alejandro Zambra, Megan McDowell (trans.)
At once a chronicle of fatherhood, a letter to a child and a work of fiction, Childish Literature is the latest, virtuosic addition to the oeuvre of one of the…
