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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Hiromi Kawakami, Ted Goossen (trans.)
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology and destiny.
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Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (trans.)
At once heart-rending and heartwarming, this bestselling shortlistee of the Japan Booksellers' Prize is a celebraton of community libraries and the life-changing power of book recommendation.
Magda Szabo, Len Rix (trans.)
By Hungary’s most celebrated woman writer, a novel about how little we understand ourselves, let alone others, and in consequence how easily we fail, or even betray, those we love.
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Shida Bazyar, Ruth Martin (trans.)
An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship.
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Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)
An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mother, this is a story of one woman's efforts to reconnect with her aging…
Lee Geum-yi, An Seon Jae (trans.)
Two women's lives and identities are intertwined - through World War II and the Korean War - revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the…
Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (trans.)
With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai is a disconcerting and astute…
Anne Berest, Tina Kover (trans.)
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society
Nino Haratischvili, Ruth Martin (trans.)
The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.
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Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (trans.)
A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life and the healing power of books.
Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett (trans.), David Boyd (trans.), Helen O'Horan (trans.), Daniel Joseph (trans.)
A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
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Han Kang, Deborah Smith & Emily Yae Won (trans)
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian
Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (trans.)
From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.
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Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary (trans.)
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips…
Riku Onda, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
Tender, cruel, compelling, Honeybees and Distant Thunder is the unflinching story of love, courage and rivalry. Most of all, it shows how three young people reconcile with the highs and…
Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch (trans.)
In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance.
Leila Slimani, Sam Taylor (trans.)
As she stands at the window, the spring sunshine streaming in, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her: it’s April 1968 and Morocco is changing. Looking out at her garden…
Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans.)
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without them?
Fernanda Melchor, Sophie Hughes (trans.)
Set in and around the city of Veracruz in Mexico, This Is Not Miami delivers twelve devastating stories that spiral from real events. These cronicás—a genre unique to Latin…
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Cho Nam-Joo & Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.
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Kang Hwagil, Clare Richards (trans.)
Told in alternative viewpoints, in sharp, intelligent and multi-layered prose, this powerful and necessary novel confronts issues of sexism and abuse on university campuses.
Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
First published in Japan in 2003 and never before published in the United States, Dead-End Memories collects the stories of five women who, following sudden and painful events, quietly discover…
Constance Debre, Holly James (trans.)
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
Nino Haratischvili, Charlotte Collins (trans.)
A modern-day Wuthering Heights from the author of international bestseller The Eighth Life.
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Viola Di Grado, Jamie Richards (trans.)
From one of Italy’s most electrifying voices, a powerful and original writer (Michael Cunningham), a fearless story of queer love and obsession set against the glassy surfaces of Shanghai.
Could you marry a man you’ve never met? Three Korean women in 1910 make a life-changing journey to Hawaii where they will marry, having seen only a photograph of their…
Veronique Olmi, Alison Anderson (trans.)
A family chronicle, and that of an era, from May 1968 to the 1980s: passionate, heartfelt and profound.
Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the three-time International Booker Prize finalist
Victoria Mas
For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane…
Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.)
It is summer in Tokyo. Claire finds herself dividing her time between tutoring twelve-year-old Mieko, in an apartment in an abandoned hotel, and lying on the floor at her grandparents…
Mariana Enriquez, Megan McDowell (trans.)
A damaged father battles to save his son from the sinister cult he is destined to serve.
Natsuko Imamura
Clever, bewildering and darkly comic, The Woman in the Purple Skirt is the story of two women whose lives are set to become terribly entwined.
Geetanjali Shree, Daisy Rockwell (trans.)
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life and travels back to Pakistan with her…
Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Gu Byeong-mo, Chi-Young Kim (trans.)
A whip-smart, taut and compelling novel about a 60-something female assassin navigating the vulnerabilities posed by her ageing body, and a meditation on loss and loneliness
Hanna Bervoets, Emma Rault (trans.)
For readers of Leila Slimani's Lullaby or Ling Ma's Severance: a tight, propulsive, chilling novel by a rising international star.
Jhumpa Lahiri
The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own.
She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She…
Mieko Kawakami
From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.
Irene Sola, Mara Faye Lethem (trans.)
A ferociously imaginative, polyphonic debut: amid the rugged beauty of the Pyrenees, the mountains' inhabitants - both human and non-human - bear witness to the tragedies that befall one family
Defne Suman, Betsy Guksel (trans.)
Told from four different perspectives, At the Breakfast Table is a story of hidden histories and family secrets, revealing the psychological consequences of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Bianca Pitzorno, Brigid Maher (trans.)
An immersive and vividly written historical novel for anyone who loved Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels or Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring.
Elin Cullhed, Jennifer Hayashida (trans.)
A luminous portrayal of a brilliant mind who is at once at battle with herself and with the constraints that society has placed on her
Rin Usami, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
A bestselling and award-winning Japanese phenomenon - about obsession, pop culture and fandom
Banana Yoshimoto
A beautiful new edition to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of the original English publication of Kitchen.
Eva Baltasar, Julia Sanchez (trans.)
The grim and lovely follow-up to Eva Baltasar’s acclaimed Permafrost explores the darker sides of love and motherhood for two women determined to live as they like.
Andrea Abreu
‘A force of nature. It leaves you stranded on a rich and prophetic insular world of women and low, grey, clouds that merge with the sea’ Pilar Quintana A debut…
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Irene Sola
A prize-winning, spell-binding, polyphonic debut of love, wildness and tragedy that marks the generations - for readers of Sarah Baume and Max Porter.
Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (trans.)
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the National Book Award
