A Fine Balance
A sweeping modern classic of friendship, survival, politics, and ordinary lives under pressure in India.
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A Soft Landing
A contemporary South African novel with a bright, intimate cover and a launch-shelf feel. Full copy to be confirmed.
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Butter
A contemporary novel translated from Japanese, centred on appetite, attention, and the stories women are allowed to tell.
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If I Survive You
Linked stories of family, migration, class, and identity, following Jamaican American lives in and around Miami.
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Milk Teeth
A contemporary Indian novel of friendship, city life, adulthood, longing, and social change.
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Petals of Blood
A major African novel of memory, betrayal, land, capitalism, and the unfinished work of liberation.
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The Island of Missing Trees
A novel of memory, migration, family, and divided histories, moving across landscapes and generations.
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The Kopano Matlwa Collection
Three South African novels in one volume, tracing girlhood, class, race, language, and public life.
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
A layered novel of grief, tenderness, resistance, and lives gathered across Delhi, Kashmir, and beyond.
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
A Booker-winning Sri Lankan novel of war, afterlife, memory, corruption, and unresolved histories.
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491 Days
A South African prison memoir and political record from Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's detention.
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Farthest Field
A historical account of Indian lives, memory, and service during the Second World War.
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