Monumenta by Lara Haworth

Olga Pavic’s house has been requisitioned. Her home will become a monument to a massacre. But Olga cannot ascertain which massacre. Three different architects visit, each with a proposal to construct a different monument, to memorialise a different horror. Olga can’t allow them to unearth the secrets held in this space, not until she reunites with her children for a final dinner. Her aspirational, distant daughter, Hilde, and her secretly queer son, Danilo, both reluctantly agree to fly back to Belgrade.

Napalm in the Heart by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

In a deserted village, an unnamed young man waits for an opportunity to escape. Society has been militarised, the dead lie unburied and thugs patrol the land. As he waits, he marks the days that pass and writes to his lover Boris, with whom he shares an animal desire.

In a series of impassioned dispatches, Napalm in the Heart unearths what it means to survive when language and nature fail, to refuse to give up when everything is lost.

A Cold Season by Matthew Hooper

Set between the wars, A Cold Season follows the story of 14-year-old Beth, the narrator. Beth’s brother Sam and her father Owens have gone missing in a freak winter storm. In a small house in the foothills of Mount Kosciuszko, Beth is stuck with her mother and her other brother, Little Sasha. They are longing for Sam and Owens to return. In what threatens to become an emotional and physical pressure cooker tensions flare, and to make matters worse Mama is seeing the local bad man, Wallace.

Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkowski

A year after a tragic incident splintered their friendship, three women travel to Marcoy, a regional town, to reconnect. For Melissa, Bridie and Cassandra the weekend is about being together and enjoying their friendship the way they used to, while not – at any cost – having to address the reason for the distance between them. But when they witness a young girl being coerced into a car by a man she fears, they are forced to reckon with the chasm of grief and trauma that’s kept them apart.

Gifted by Suzumi Suzuki, translated by Allison Markin Powell

In 2008, the unnamed narrator of Gifted is working as a hostess and living in Tokyo’s nightlife district. One day, her estranged mother, who is seriously ill, suddenly turns up at her door. As the mother approaches the end of her life, the two women must navigate their strained relationship, while the narrator also reckons with events happening in her own life, including the death of a close friend. Based on the Suzuki’s own experiences as a sex worker, Gifted heralds an exciting new literary talent.

Matia by Emily Tsokos Purtill

A woman in my village gave me four prophecies. They have all come true, so far.

Sia is a young Greek woman who has emigrated from Greece to Perth, Western Australia in 1945 for a better life. She carries with her four prophecies and four pieces of protective jewellery, matia, one for herself, her daughter, her granddaughter, and great-granddaughter. With a dooming prophecy hanging over each woman’s head will their lives unfold as they want or are they chained to the fate that’s been destined for them?

Early Sobrieties by Michael Deagler

Twenty-six-year-old Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober but just when he needs stability, his parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing. Everything around Dennis has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world.

Due for publication around 15 October.

The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

The Coin’s narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous, increasingly obsessive hygiene. Yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed. In New York, she teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler and participates in a pyramid scheme reselling Birkin bags. But America is stifling her, and she unravels spectacularly.

Due for publication around 22 October.

Bad Habit by Alana S. Portero, translated by Mara Faye Lethem

An unnamed young trans woman grows up in a working-class suburb without a place for her. She discovers community and kinship in downtown Madrid, amid a dazzling party scene with charming junkies, glamorous pop divas and fallen angels. Still, she finds herself confronted by an antagonism in the city she does not know how to counter. In this thrilling but often frightening place, each decision can have the highest of stakes, yet only she can forge a path to the life she truly wants to live.

Due for publication around 1 November.