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Colson Whitehead
A magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South.
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Carmen Maria Machado
A dark, shimmering slice into womanhood, Her Body and Other Parties is wicked and exquisite.
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Andrea Lawlor
Transposing Virginia Woolf’s Orlando to 90s San Francisco, this novel of transgender metamorphosis is a wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.
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Molly Aitken
A rich, haunting and deeply moving novel about the power and the danger in a mother’s love, from one of the most exciting new voices in Irish fiction
Jeanette Winterson
inventive and brilliant’ Guardian'As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author’s formidable appetite for life’ Sunday Times'A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance…brilliantly physical (and…
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Angela Carter
An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
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Kathleen Jennings
A captivating debut novel that transforms the familiar Australian landscape into a place of monsters and magic, cruelty and fear.
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Erin Morgenstern
From the New York Times-bestselling author of The Night Circus comes a timeless love story set in a secret underground world - a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and…
Alexis Wright
Shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Award
Elizabeth Tan
Conspiracies, memes, and therapies of various efficacy underpin this beguiling short-story collection from Elizabeth Tan.
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Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi, the prize-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel about motherhood, family legacy and… gingerbread.
Sarah Perry
From the author of the bestselling The Essex Serpent comes a darkly inventive and deeply moving novel that speaks urgently to our times.
Genki Kawamura
A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.
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Eowyn Ivey
Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and Mabel is haunted by the…
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates…
