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Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree

An urgent yet engaging protest against the destructive impact of borders, whether between religions, countries or genders. 

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Paradais

Fernanda Melchor

Written in a chilling torrent of prose by one of Mexico’s most thrilling new writers, Paradais explores the explosive fragility of Mexican society.

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Heaven

Mieko Kawakami

Told through the eyes of a 14-year-old boy subjected to relentless bullying, this is a haunting novel of the threat of violence that can stalk our teenage years. 

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Love in the Big City

Sang Young Park

An energetic, joyful, and moving novel that depicts both the glittering night-time world of Seoul, and the bleary-eyed morning after. 

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Happy Stories, Mostly

Norman Erikson Pasaribu

Powerful blend of science fiction, absurdism and alternative-historical realism that aims to destabilise the heteronormative world and expose its underlying rot. 

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Elena Knows

Claudia Piñeiro

A unique story that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and the search for individual freedom.

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The Book of Mother

Violaine Huisman

Violaine Huisman’s remarkable debut novel is an exquisitely wrought story about a daughter’s inextinguishable love for her magnetic, mercurial mother. 

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More Than I Love My Life

David Grossman

Sweeping story about loving with courage that asks us to confront our deepest held beliefs about a woman's duty to herself - and to her children.

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Phenotypes

Paulo Scott

Paulo Scott delivers a smart and stylish account of the bigotry lurking in hearts and institutions alike.

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A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse

Jon Fosse delivers both a transcendent exploration of the human condition and a radically ‘other’ reading experience - incantatory, hypnotic, and utterly unique. 

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After the Sun

Jonas Eika

With irrepressible urgency, Eika’s astonishing fiction juxtaposes startling beauty with grotesquery, and balances the hyper-realistic with the fantastical. 

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The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk's portrayal of Enlightenment Europe on the cusp of precipitous change, searching for certainty and longing for transcendence. 

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Cursed Bunny

Bora Chung

Bora Chung presents a genre-defying collection of short stories, which blur the lines between magical realism, horror and science fiction. 

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