Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname 'Boulder'. When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants to have a child. She is already forty and can't bear to let the opportunity pass her by. Boulder is less enthused, but doesn't know how to say no – and so finds herself dragged along on a journey that feels as thankless as it is alien.With motherhood ch...

Mammoth's protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She's inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray cats, waits tables, cleans house, and dabbles in sex work – all in pursuit of life in the raw. This small bomb of a novel, not remotely pastoral, builds to a howling crescendo of socia...

Permafrost's no-bullshit lesbian narrator is an uninhibited lover, a no-hope employee, and a some-time suicidal student of her own dislocated self. As she tries to break out of the roles set for her by a controlling, overprotective mother, a relentlessly positive sister, and a society which imposes a gut-wrenching pressure to conform, she contemplates the so-called will to live when that life is given, rather than chosen. Attempting to bridge the gap between the perennially frozen...

A ferocious, saber-toothed triptych of novels on sex, queerness, and womanhood—finally in conversation with one another in a single revelatory volume.Finally united in a single volume, these powerhouse novellas from the Catalan superstar Eva Baltasar tell three wild, delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood, and friendship. In prose that has the directness of a firearm and the fragility of a bird of prey on the wing, these int...

**Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2025“Buckley creates a novel of quiet brilliance and sly humour, packed with mystery and indeterminacy.”—The Booker Prize judges**After losing her father, Teresa returns to a small town on the Greek coast—the same place she visited when grieving her mother nine years ago. Soon, she encounters some of the people she met last time around: John, a man struggling to come to terms with the violent death of his nephew; Petros, an eccentric mechan...

**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER****A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibiliti...

**BOOKER PRIZE LONGLIST • “A vibrant, heartstrings-tugging novel” (People) about a mother’s love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption, from the prize-winning author of Golden Child“A beautiful story . . . explores what it means to be a woman and what it means to love.”—Amanda Peters, author of The Berry Pickers**“Reads like a Claire Keegan story expanded by Elizabeth Strout.”—The Times, ...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2025 • NPR’s Books We LoveRemember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency: a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of truth and power from a writer who “brilliantly illuminates the entrenched inequalities of our time” (The Guardian).**Late one night on a Yorkshire farm, in t...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“Feels less like reading a novel and more like sitting in a car beside a dear friend as he navigates the road up ahead. A profoundly moving experience.” —Ann Patchett“Deeply human...a beautifully quiet and devastating book.” —Sarah Jessica ParkerA triumphantly life-affirming road trip novel about marriage, middle-age, and a man at a cro...

In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious literary awards. This is a collection sure to be read for years to come.

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEIn a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own."The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange, it unfolds with the disturbed logic of a fever dream." —The New York Times"The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlin...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “This inventive, boundary-pushing follow-up to Detransition, Baby . . . [takes] on gender, transness and lives on the margins in all of their gorgeously complicated glory.”—People“Hot, heartbreaking, and thrillingly victorious.”—Miranda July, New York Times bestselling author of All FoursNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • LONGLISTE...