The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage to rescue her fatherThe House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadhrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar’s cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifyin...

What if your thoughts weren’t truly yours?Detective Aiden Cross has spent years chasing patterns in crimes that make no sense — impossible timing, missing evidence, victims who seem connected by something unseen.When the case turns inward, Aiden begins to question not just the city around him, but the voices inside his own mind.The Fifth Mind is a psychological crime novel that dives deep into memory, perception, and identi...

Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older sister and irritable mother, while the men of the family throw themselves into the political movements of the day. She is tormented by the petty squabbles of the household and dreams of educating herself and venturing into the wider world. But Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what personal cost? Set in the 1940s, with Partition looming on the horizon, The Women's Courtyard cl...

SWANA Dykes is a bold anthology of creative work by lesbians and queer folks from South West Asian and North African (SWANA) diasporas. Editors Khadija Pitts-Ceesay and Nikki Luna deftly assemble creative and artistic works that envision a world beyond militarized borders and that reflect the powerful and poignant ancestral narratives that these artists preserve through their work. In SWANA Dykes, artists and writers investigate many urgent topics: the sacredness of trans...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ERBD LITERATURE PRIZE 2024A BEST NEW BOOK OF 2023 (THE NEW ARAB)A NOTABLE AFRICAN BOOK OF 2023 (BRITTLE PAPER)An unforgettable and eviscerating novel of human frailty, brutality, and resistance as told through the first-person prison narratives of a man and a womanHistory of Ash is a fictional prison account narrated by Mouline and Leila, who have been imprisoned for their politic...

In the heart of a seemingly peaceful holiday park, hidden among ancient trees, an adventure unfolds that defies the limits of imagination. When Agent Jansen disappears without a trace, four brave children—Sara, Yuki, Ella, and Chuqqqa—unwittingly become the protagonists in a mystery that pulls them deep beneath the surface of their safe world.A Hidden SecretThe discovery of strange, glittering stones in the Whispering Woods turns everything upside down. These rare minerals ...

The twin moons of Eryndor hung low in the sky, their silver light casting an ethereal glow over the war-torn plains. The air shimmered with remnants of magic, fractured and unstable, clashing with the cold hum of advanced machinery that patrolled the skies.Eryndor was a world of contradictions—where ancient magic coursed through the veins of the land, yet towering metallic cities pierced the clouds, ruled by factions that sought to suppress that magic at all costs.Aeliana sto...

The story revolves around a young man who falls in love with his classmate.

In the fractured realm of Aethelgard, the line between divinity and damnation is blurred by the blood of those caught in the crossfire. The Chronicles of Shadow and Sun follows the harrowing journey of Princess Elara, a daughter of the light, and Kaelen, a legendary immortal branded a monster by a corrupt pantheon. What begins as a mission of assassination transforms into a desperate alliance when Elara discovers her father, King Alaric, intends to harvest Kaelen's eternal...

In the quiet village of Oakhaven, Lyra has spent twenty-one years blending into the golden wheat fields and lavender-scented air, hiding a secret that breathes in the corners of her room. Since childhood, she has felt a hollow disconnection from the human world—a silence in her soul that only breaks when the shadows respond to her fear or anger. She was told it was a curse, a remnant of a dark history best forgotten. But on the night of the Lunar Alignment, the silence doesn't just break; ...

In the cold, gray corridors of Aethelgard University, Elena Vance has built a fortress out of silence. For three years, she has survived by cataloging the past, burying her own traumatic memories of a moonless night at Blackwood Cove beneath layers of academic routine. She is a woman who has mastered the art of being invisible—until the first cream-colored envelope appears in her mailbox.The letters are exquisite, written in an elegant, fluid hand on heavy vellum, but their beauty ...