As a child Lucas assumed that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man, and still sharing the West London narrowboat with his down-to-earth sister Denise, he secretly investigates the contents...

Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant...

Told in three alternating first-person narratives, The Factory casts a vivid-if sometimes surreal-portrait of the absurdity and meaninglessness of modern life. With hints of Kafka and unexpected moments of creeping humor, Hiroko...

A dazzling tribute to the resilience and determination of a remarkable community of women, for fans of Shantaram and Behind the Beautiful Forevers

A dark and lyrical collection of short stories from the author of the critically acclaimed Speak Gigantular and Butterfly Fish, whose unique voice has been praised by writers like Ben Okri and Stella Duffy.

A devastating, darkly comic story of a woman's slide into depression and institutionalisation from a master of razor-edged literary humour.

A warm-hearted novel from the author of Walking on Trampolines about music, grief, relationships, gardens, love, laughter and family.

A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you change if you could go back?

From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World...

Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision.

Akutagawa-award-winning author Yu Miri uses her outsider's perspective as a Zainichi (Korean-Japanese) writer to craft a novel of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply...

A powerful new novel from the author of Grace, winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year

An intensely human story amidst a global conflict, The Parisian is historical fiction with a remarkable contemporary voice.

Girl, Edna O'Brien's 'courageous' (J.M. Coetzee) new novel, is an unforgettable depiction of one woman's abduction by Boko Haram.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo - in his first stand-alone novel in a decade - comes a new revelation: a gripping story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship.

An urgent literary phenomenon sold in over 22 languages before publication, a gripping tale of one woman's desperate battle to survive the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela.

In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice...

The House of Youssef is a collection of short stories set in Western Sydney. The stories explore the lives of Lebanese migrants who have settled in the area, circling around themes of isolation, family and community, and nostalgia...

Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.

There is no pathologizing Jeanne; she resists it. There is no way to impose a story on Jeanne; she escapes it. There is no pitying Jeanne, no lusting after Jeanne, no uncovering the secret to Jeanne; she won't allow it. Jeanne...

For Orla, living in the suburbs in 1968 on the cusp of adolescence, her father is a great shining light, whose warm and powerful presence fills her world. But in the aftermath of his sudden death, Orla, her mother and her sister...

From the acclaimed author of The Red Car, a comic novel of race, money, sex, liberalism, and bad behavior in our post-Obama, era featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcee, her college-age daughter, and the famous Pakistani-American...

Ninth House is the long-awaited adult debut by the bestselling author of King of Scars, Six of Crows and the Grisha Trilogy, soon to be a NETFLIX series

Going Dutch is a hilarious and cutting portrait of modern relationships that finds a gay male graduate student falling for his brilliant female classmate. For fans of The Love affairs of Nathaniel P (with a queer twist) --

For fans of Roddy Doyle and Marian Keyes: a heartwarming and funny story of an Irish family, the Augustts, all bound together with love and language. There's a son who doesn't speak, a mother who has a stroke, a granny who talks ...

Topical and timely, Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri's new collection of short stories blur parallel realities and walk the line between darkness and magic.

A blazing, intimate collection about a young generation of Chinese millennials, their unconventional sex lives and fantastic technologies, on a quest for every kind of freedom.

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story by top ten bestselling author, Kayte Nunn

A Daphne Du Maurier-esque chiller set on the mysterious Cornish coast from the author of The Silent Companions and The Corset

A wildly inventive and audacious debut novel from the author of Hostages

A haunting, compelling first novel by the author of the award-winning Madness: A Memoir.

From Jennifer Weiner, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Who Do You Love and In Her Shoes comes a smart, thoughtful, and timely exploration of two sisters' lives from the 1950s to the present as they struggle to find...

A jewel of a novel about an ageing potter who, out collecting rock for glazes, finds three kids living in a cave

A novel that takes the reader into a closed world of privilege and tradition: for fans of crime fiction, but also true crime - a study of class, religion, and how a worldview which sees violence as an integral part of masculinity,...

A blisteringly funny and remarkably tender debut novel from Olivia Laing, one of the finest non-fiction writers of her generation. Winner of the James Tait Black Award 2019, shortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018

The brilliant new novel from the author of Work Like Any Other, longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**Alexandr and Christine and Zachary and Lydia have been close friends since they first met in their twenties.

Fast-paced and highly topical, Theresia Enzensberger's story depicts a young woman in the throes of life: from brutal conflicts between right and left, to a pair of young lovers leaping into a river at night, almost one hundred...

The long-awaited new Chocolat novel from the multi-million-copy bestselling author Joanne Harris

Former hitman Blake Saunders flees the Philadelphia Mob for a quieter existence in a coastal Australian town. Life in Coral Shoals is perfect and Blake is a new man. But then a young woman's body is found at a local motel. When...

Tightly woven, humane and insightful, tracing the most intimate reaches of a young woman's heart and mind, Say Say Say is a riveting story about what it means to love, in a world where time is always running...

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question

Winner of the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize.

A literary, and terrifyingly credible, novel about our juvenile justice system written by a lawyer working in the field.

An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons, in the finest tradition of American storytelling.

A breakout debut novel featured in the US by Buzzfeed, Elle, Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, about a young woman navigating the worlds of the private and the political in a fractured America.

A thrilling new novel from the author of critically acclaimed DOWN THE HUME.

In her hit US debut, Dana Czapnik memorably captures the voice of a young woman in the first flush of freedom searching for an authentic way to live and love.

The unmissable third instalment in the bestselling, critically adored, dazzling inventive novel cycle, the Seasonal Quartet.

The Great Gatsby meets On Chesil Beach in this dark and sexy debut novel about marriage, love and betrayal.

Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true original.

A stunning literary novel from the author of the Stella Prize shortlisted Hope Farm.  

A masterwork from Australia's greatest cult literary figure, published for the first time as the author originally intended

For readers of The Dark Lake and The Dry, comes this taut psychological suspense set in a dramatic Tasmanian landscape from bestselling author Sarah Barrie.

Returning to the universe of Revenger, award-winning author Alastair Reynolds delivers another thrilling tale set among the stars.

A satirical and surreal twist on the Anzac legend of Simpson and his donkey

A wild and brilliant novel about nationhood and borders, about art and ideology, and about the violence running through the branches of our 10,000-year-old family tree.

Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders' Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday been...

Illuminating one of the great love stories of the twentieth century -- Tennessee Williams and his longtime partner Frank Merlo -- Leading Men is a glittering novel of desire and ambition, set against the...

WINNER OF THE EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction...

Set in the foothills of the Scottish Highlands, a woman's chilling family history comes back to haunt her in this captivating thriller about the irrepressible secrets of the past.

After a stint as a music venue proprietor, Geoff Maddox is getting on with his life: managing his complex domestic situation; visiting the local shopping mall; and socialising with the regulars at the Stella Maris Hotel.

Dimópulos shows her remarkable gift for weaving uncanny details into complex narrative thread. With arresting guile and grace, Imminence explores the dark inner rooms of the human soul.

Chris Power's stories are peopled by men and women who find themselves at crossroads or dead ends - at ancient Swedish burial sites, river crossings on Exmoor, and raucous Mexican weddings.

New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter brings back Will Trent and Sara Linton in this superb and timely thriller full of devious twists, disturbing secrets, and shocking surprises you won't see coming.

A hypnotic story of youth, sex and power, and of two women cast out by the same community though separated by a hundred years

A collection of four novellas: each taking place in 1998, each set in the world of Six Four, and each centring around a mystery and the unfortunate officer tasked with solving it.

Monsarrat and Mrs Mulrooney are sent to Sydney to investigate corruption that may go right to the top - to the office of the governor - and threaten the colony's fundamental rights to freedom of speech.   

The present reckons with the past in Attraction, Ruby Porter's atmospheric debut novel.

A stunning debut from a brilliant new voice in literary fiction

A musical monument of language to a mother, this novel sings and hums and growls and rattles and tickles and rages and smears and hurts.