Martyr!

Carys Shannon

In a small estuary village on the Welsh coast, Catrin is mourning the anniversary of her mother's drowning when a teenage girl disappears on the same mudflats. Terrified of history repeating itself and driven by unresolved grief, Catrin becomes obsessed with finding Emily. Her search dredges up secrets from the village's past and present, uncovering far more than the missing gi...

Alice Evelyn Yang

A dark, magical realist debut family saga that moves through the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Cultural Revolution, and the present day to explore the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate. Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disa...

Stephanie Sy-Quia

His grandfather had been a Catholic priest. A story in seven words, and his life the unsolved mystery.Rome, 1953. David is young, handsome, charismatic, and sworn to celibacy. He is freshly ordained, and about to return to England to begin life as a priest. Devotion to God is all he's ever known, and all he thinks he ever will.In London, Margaret is entangled in an impossible l...

Allan Radcliffe

' I mean, it' s nothing really. An old face from the past.' Two men meet on a dating app. It' s supposed to be a casual encounter between strangers. Jordan is only back in Edinburgh to visit his complicated family, and Davie is reeling from a painful breakup. Yet Davie recognises Jordan as someone he knew long ago, when they were both closeted teenagers at the same school. Back...

André Aciman

From the bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, this contemporary twist on A Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been. ...

Asta Olivia Nordenhof

A groundbreaking, profound and intimate novel about capitalism's effects on the human heart: Money to Burn is the first volume of the Scandinavian Star series, a new masterpiece of Danish literature *Guardian best translated fiction of 2025* 'Buzzes with electricity... intriguing, maddening, exciting. I'm in' Observer 'Like a normal novel with the boring bits taken out' Guardia...

Kaveh Akbar

I could not be held responsible for desire he could not be held at all In Calling a Wolf a Wolf, the reality of love can all too often prove disappointing at best, and life-threateningly ineffectual at worst. As Kaveh Akbar puts it in 'Heritage', a poem dedicated to an Iranian woman executed for killing the man who was attempting to rape her- 'in books love can be war-ending/....

Kaveh Akbar

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR • A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out...

Kaveh Akbar

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024 FOR TIME, NYLON , OPRAH, AND CNN ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life' John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars Cyrus Shams is lost. Ever since his mother's plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been...

Kaveh Akbar

An inspiring new selection of poems exploring faith and the divine, featuring poets from across the world, from antiquity to the present, compiled by renowned poet Kaveh AkbarA Penguin ClassicPoets have always looked to the skies for inspiration, and have written as a way of getting closer to the power and beauty they sense in nature, in each other and in the cosmos. This antho...

Kaveh Akbar