Gloria has a learning disability. She's nineteen, and there's nothing to do except wander the local parks, look for friendship and keep out of trouble - or go round Jack's. Jack needs Gloria's company, but he's unpredictable and angry at the world. After an act of violence, their friendship has to end. Now Gloria's on her own. But when she hears Jack's out of prison, her whole world is turned upside-down. Heart-breaking and beautiful, Gloria Don't Speak is an insightful portrait of a woman...

Three young people from vastly different backgrounds – Armando from Mozambique, Lolita from India and East German national Theo – are drawn together in a small Baltic city in 1989, just as the DDR begins to collapse around them.While a quiet revolution sweeps through Eastern Europe, they find themselves in a poignant love triangle, as their lives intertwine and collide with each other in messy, beautiful ways."An expert novel, The Others is superbly organiz...

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.Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without ...

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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION“A gentle and compassionate novel that explores the nuances of queer love and friendship.” The Guardian, Derek Owusu“a tenderly written meditation on art, love and life that’s as much about the search for self as for connection.” Marie Claire, editor’s pick"Kelly writes the messiness of power dynamics well." Telegraph

**An Oprah's Book Club PickWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionFinalist for the National Book Award, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and the Kirkus PrizeLonglisted for the Women's Prize for FictionMegha Majumdar’s electrifying follow-up to her acclaimed New York Times bestseller A Burning—longlisted for the National Book Award—is set in a near-future Kolkata ravaged by climate change and social disharmony, in whic...

Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize in Fiction and named a Top Ten Book of 2025 by The Atlantic and Slate, and a Best Book of 2025 by The New Yorker, TIME, Kirkus Reviews and more.“A love story for those who love Severance (both Ling Ma’s book and the unaffiliated Apple TV+ series). . . ambitious, challenging, and brilliant.” —Elle“Castillo’s flinty satire of the tech industry [transforms] in...

Shortlisted for The International Booker Prize 2026She Who Remains, Rene Karabash's landmark Bulgarian queer novel, secrets readers into a rural Albanian village where, to this day, the Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a collection of archaic laws—looms over the lives of villagers with the same haunting presence of the surrounding mountains. Bekija, painfully aware of why she cannot have what she most wants, chooses to become a "sworn virg...

One of Vogue’s Best Books of 2026One of the New York Public Library’s Books of the DayA 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 the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines is born. Celestial Lights is his story.Ollie spe...

'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that...

**Named a Novel Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026 by the New York Times • One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2026From the “most talented writer of his generation” (The New York Times), a lightning flash of a novel that is at once a gripping emotional drama and a brilliant examination of the devices, digital and literary, we use to store—or to erase—our memories.**The narrator of Ben Lerner’s new novel has traveled to Providence, ...

#1 International Bestseller * Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this “profound…comic…[and] unconventional” (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author’s great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis.