International fiction
Bestselling books in new, compact formats
These bestselling books are now available in smaller, more portable formats!
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
In this ingenious reimagining of David Copperfield set in modern-day Southern Appalachia, Damon (quickly nicknamed Demon) journeys through his life with only a few things to rely on: his dead father’s good looks, his devilish charm and a knack for survival. Though his challenges are many – foster care, child labour, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses – he never loses sight of his…
Don't miss these June debuts
Before we dive headfirst into next month's releases, we're looking back at just a few of the outstanding debuts that graced our shelves in June.
Couplets by Maggie Millner
Maggie Millner’s seductive debut is a novel-in-verse about a woman in her late twenties who leaves a long-term relationship with a boyfriend for another woman. The affair thrusts her from an outwardly conventional life into queerness, polyamory, kink, and unalloyed, consuming desire. What ensues is an exploration of obsession, gender, identity-making…
The 2023 Yoto Carnegie winners
The winners of the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing and Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration have been announced!
The Carnegie Medal for Writing is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book written in English for children and young people. The Carnegie Medal for Illustration is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book in terms of illustration for children and young people.
The Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing has been awarded to Manon Steffan Ros for her young…
Barbara Kingsolver wins the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver has won the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel Demon Copperhead. With this win, Kingsolver becomes the first double winner for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in its 28 year history. Her first win was in 2010 for her novel Lacuna.
Demon Copperhead: a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent…
Out of this world LGBTQIA+ fiction
If you're into queer space operas, fantasy epics and the lives of futuristic robots – then do we have the books for you! We've recently been gifted with a treasure trove of LGBTQIA+ sci-fi and fantasy titles that are the perfect place to escape to as the weather turns wintry. Below are four of our recent favourites.
In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees live…
Sleuths and busybodies in contemporary coming-of-age fiction
Let's hear it for the nosy protagonists. They are united by their underestimated abilities, their unwillingness to accept things at face value, their passion that almost always bubbles over to obsession, and of course their scathing social critiques.
Brutes by Dizz Tate
Hot and humid summer days converge as the girls watch the town's goings on closely. They peer from around corners, behind bushes and high up on stone walls; above it all. These thirteen-year-olds see everything as they skulk…
Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz win the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz have each won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Kingsolver has won for her novel Demon Copperhead, and Diaz for his novel Trust.
The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is awarded For distinguished fiction published during the year by an American author, preferably dealing with American life. The winner receives $15,000. This year is the first time since inception (1948) that the prize has been awarded to fiction books.
Learn more about each winning…
Our 2023 April bestsellers
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Did I Ever Tell You This? Sam Neill
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au
Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind by Saul Griffith
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
Outlive by Peter Attia…
Fatimah Asghar wins the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Fatimah Asghar has won the first ever Carol Shields Prize for Fiction!
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is a major new English-language literary award to celebrate creativity and excellence in fiction by women and non-binary writers in the United States and Canada. Debut author Fatimah Asghar has been announced the winner in its inaugural year for their work, When We Were Sisters. Asghar will receive the prize of $150,000 as well as a writing residency.
The novel traces…
The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist 2023
The shortlist for the 2023 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed.
Below are the six longlisted books.
Black Butterflies by Priscilla Morris
Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the…
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