"This novel will grab you in the gut and hold you there. It’s absolutely outstanding. Once I entered this world I didn’t want to leave.” —Roxane Gay, author of Opinions"The cast delivers powerfully nuanced performances. [Narrator] Dion Graham’s Sabre is both cringe-inducingly unctuous and disturbingly seductive. [Narrator] Bahni Turpin’s Priscilla is piercing, hilarious and sympathetic in her human emotion...[Narrator] Angel Pean’s performance is a...

In 1807, Congress passed a law banning the import of slaves to the US. While many would break this law leading up to the Civil War, it still marked an incredible victory for abolitionists both black and white. Reverend Peter Williams delivered this speech the day the bill went into effect. In it, he gives thanks to God and all those advocating on behalf of the African-American community.

Henry Highland Garnet delivered this address at the National Negro Convention of 1843. In it, Garnet declares that mourning on behalf of slaves is no longer enough. He urges the slaves of the South to rise against their oppressors, saying, “let it no longer be a debatable question whether it is better to choose Liberty or death.” While the speech fell short of gaining the convention’s official approval, it documents an important part of civil discussion about race.

Reverend Henry McNeal Turner was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and one of the greatest defender of black American rights after the Civil War. During the Reconstruction, he was elected as a state representative of Georgia, where he served until being forced out by anti-black Senators. In response, he gave this powerful 1868 speech which denounced the individuals who were so cowardly they would reject a man legally elected on wholly fallacious grounds.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION"Absolutely outstanding"―ROXANE GAY"Formidable"― THE GUARDIAN"Bold and darkly funny"― THE SUNDAY TIMES"Gripping"― THE TELEGRAPH"A debut of striking authority"― THE SPECTATORIn the town of Dominion, Mississippi, Reverend Sabre Winfrey, Jr. is more th...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONA dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate.Narrated by Carolyn Kang.Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night o...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816.The dark summer that birthed a monster . . .**Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, Mary seeks a refuge.But Lord Byron’s villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap.When Byron suggests each gue...

“Narrator Eunice Wong's perfect pacing and faultless emphasis bring Trip to life, and she adds an edge to her depiction of Sandra, reflecting her high anxiety and frustration.” —AudioFileA woman embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to help her son, who is literally and figuratively lost at sea: a hilarious and deeply moving voyage of the body and the mind.Sandra dies suddenly at a death conference in Nepal attended by academics and m...

**Brought to you by Penguin.Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie.** Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their own hopes and fears.Over the years, they have gone their separate ways. Rob is a history teacher, with a string of broken relationships behind him. Yas is a surgeon and very much her own woman. Indie is married and a successful coffee entrepreneur. Rachel is a stay at home mum with tw...

A chance encounter draws two old classmates toward an unforgettable reckoning in this "very smart and darkly funny" novel exploring power—and how it tangles with privilege, marriage, motherhood, and midlife—from the acclaimed author of Alys, Always, and Her (Flynn Berry, author of Northern Spy)."I look. I can’t stop looking. That’s the deal, isn’t it? We all know that’s how it works. If someone wants to be seen—and oh, how they want t...

One of Vogue’s Best Books of 2026"Dane Williams’ performance as Ollie is suitably quiet and introspective as he considers, through journal entries, pivotal milestones and relationships." — KirkusA beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space from the award-winning author of Wandering SoulsJanuary 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of th...

**FINALIST FOR THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE IN FICTION"One of our greatest living authors."—Lauren LeBlanc, The Boston GlobeMarking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal**Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Gayl Jones follows the witty but perplexing army veteran Buddy Ray Guy as he embo...