General & literary fiction Books

One of LitHub, Bookshop.org and i-D's most anticipated books of 2024 With her novels The Exhibition of Persephone Q and The Visitors, Jessi Jezewska Stevens has proven herself as our preeminent purveyor of comical, techno-millenarian unease. Now, with...

Winner of the 2023 FICCI India Book of the Year award - a powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer.Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells of a prophecy fulfilled when a number of villages are...

From prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin comes the contemplative, superbly-crafted story of a woman scapegoated by sudden tragedy, and the unexpected paths she must wander in search of redemption.Haesoo is a successful therapist and regular guest on...

Torrential and dreamlike, Mauro Javier Crdenas' novel unfurls into a layered, poignant, and unflinching portrait of how family separations have impacted the minds of Latin American deportees in a technology-bound 21st century.American Abductions opens in...

Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land. The city of pies and Irn Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene - his place of escape. But how will he respond to the news of the proposed merging of Edinburgh and Glasgow? A new member of Bertie's class at...

Full of wit, music, and a rollicking cast of characters, The Villain's Dance shows Fiston Mwanza Mujila is back with a bang.Zaire. Late 90's. Mobutu's thirty-year reign is tottering. In Lubumbashi, the stubbornly homeless Sanza...

"Intensely readable and beautifully observed . . . full of wisdom, generosity, humor, and sharp insights."-Elif Batuman, author ofEither/OrandThe IdiotThree Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome crises...

Dawn, a self-employed cleaning lady in upstate New York, agrees to pose in the houses she cleans for her friend Matthew' s provocative photography project. Over the course of one week, she and Matthew scour the contents of each home to find inspiration...

A hidden people not so hidden anymore. The Hidden Realm of Angolin has existed in peaceful isolation for centuries, but that's about to change. The enemy across the Abyss has discovered them and is intent on conquest. Lieutenant Dharmen Tate has a great...

A novel based on the shocking true eighteenth-century story of a Scottish noblewoman whose own husband faked her death and exiled her to a remote island, where she could never be found.Edinburgh, January 1732. It's the funeral of Rachel, wife of...

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is...

A pitch-perfect exploration of modern married life, Jessica Saunders's deliciously readable novel embraces the truth that some old flames can't be snuffed out, no matter how many years go by.Rachel Miller is a lawyer and mother of two who's just as...

When it comes to fame and fortune, how high a price is too high, and when do you know that you've paid too much? This debut novel by an actress and pageant title holder gives a window on the hidden rungs of that ladder, and on the pain that...

FEATURED ONLITHUB CBC BOOKS:2024 SPRING FICTION PREVIEW Dickinson after her death: a novel of the trio of women who brought Emily Dickinson's poems out of the shadowsWhen she died, Emily Dickinson left behind hundreds of texts scribbled on scraps of...

The Rachel Conditionis at once a political thriller, a family saga, and a mind-bending love story that plays out through the mysterious byways of Detroit.Antony has ostensibly traveled to Detroit in search of the last copy of a dangerous political novel,...

From the powerful storyteller Tobias Buckell (Crystal Rain, The Tangled Lands), a complex novel of humanity's passion for the written word. At the revolutionary crossroads of magic, betrayal, and long-forgotten truths, a nave, compassionate royal and a...

Three women - the old mother and her two daughters - contemplate their family life and their bottled-up feelings through the novel's placating yet oddly unnerving prose.Years and Years is divided into four large chapters; the first unravels from the...

A lyrical, lush, evocative story about a fractured Jamaican family and a daughter determined to reclaim her home.When Pearline receives grave news about her ailing father, she abruptly leaves Brooklyn for her childhood home in Jamaica. But Pearline isn't...

A philosophy professor tests the limits of the soul and body by performing dehumanizing experiments on unwilling subjects, after the department is closed due to budget cuts.Violent Faculties follows a philosophy professor influenced by Sade and Bataille...

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists.In an unnamed coastal city filled with refugees, the mother of a displaced family calls out her...

A seminal novel of African decolonization available for the first time in English translation.Lisbon 1961. Aware that the secret police are watching them, four young Angolans discuss their plans for a utopian homeland free from Portuguese rule. When war...

Flip Cityis the story of fifteen-year-old child model, James Daniel Ross, as he comes of age in 1970-a time of free love, dead rock stars, and serial killers.Escaping the psychiatric facility where his affluent father has placed him, James trades its...

When truth is more gruesome than fiction Ha Seong-nan is there. When people give in to their most intrusive thoughts Ha Seong-nan is there. When man is more animal than animals themselves Ha Seong-nan is there.In Wafers, her third short-story collection...

A farcical biography of Ulysses S. Grant,You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grantis a history lesson disguised as an uproarious novel. Spanning from Grant's birth until his victory over the Confederacy,You, Me, and Ulysses S. Grantgives us an honest-warts and...

'The potent latest from Yazbek (Planet of Clay) weighs the consequences of the Syrian civil war after a 19-year-old soldier, Ali, survives his patrol station's 2013 bombing in the Lattakia mountains.This slim novel packs a punch.'-...

At the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents' modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather's library. The...

Denzil Meyrick's three Tales from Kinloch are collected here in one paperback volume. From ghostly Vikings, to adventurous voyages, to old scores being settled, these stories are guaranteed to provide a fun-filled escape.From the author of the global...

The Isle of Iona, 825.In a bloody, brutal raid, Abbot Blathmac is slain on the steps of his monastery for refusing to give away the location of the sacred relics of St Columba, the missionary who first brought Christianity to Scotland. Following a night...

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to the bestselling Cursed: An Anthology. A blend of traditional and reimagined curses from fairy-tales to Snow White, from some of the best names in fantasy. BE...

New York Times Best Thriller of 2023New York Times Editors' Pick 2023For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the poor, the addicted, and the unfortunate souls who constantly cycle through the courts,...

Hailed in Europe, Guido Buzzelli has been called "the Michaelangelo of monsters," "the Goya of comics," and "the patron saint of all Italian cartoonists."A pioneer active from the 1950s-1980s, today virtually unknown in English, Buzzelli horrifies,...

Rosa, midway through life, is alone. Her husband passed away long ago, and her cosmopolitan daughter is already out the door, keen to marry and move to the city. At loose ends, Rosa decides to transplant herself to the flat, foggy Lombardy provinces from...

In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other.Alec, a press artist with an impressive...

Sometimes to save the world, you've got to punch a few dragons...When the planet is being eaten by interdimensional parasites who literally tear holes in reality, what do you do? If you're Charlie Chase, you dive headfirst into an interdimensional...

Morris Magellan wakes one morning to find himself stuck in a corporate job and living the suburban dream with a wife and two children, except this dream feels like a nightmare. Out of his depth and starting to drift from reality, we meet Morris at the...

Glamour UK Best New Books of June 2023 Pick Gold Book Award Winner - Nonfiction Authors AssociationBook AwardsOnce Our Lives is the true story of four generations of Chinese women and how their lives were threatened by powerful and cruel ancient...

A refreshingly original debut collection of short stories that grapple with the self-alienation and self-discovery that make us human. For fans of Souvankham Thammavongsa, Lynn Coady, and Lisa Moore comes a striking debut collection of short stories that...

'If it had not rained on a certain May morning, Valancy Stirling's whole life would have been entirely different...'One day, Valancy Stirling, a quiet, shy old maid, decides to stop listening to her nosy, small-minded relatives and...

A 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist in the Anthologies CategoryThis anthology, the first of this kind in twenty-five years, collects eighteen astounding works of Jewish fiction. This is the first anthology of translated multilingual Jewish...

"Hot To Trotis abeautifullytold story of friendship, introspection, personal growth and empathy.I don't just read Veronica Post's comics,I dive intothem."-Noah Van Sciver As Langosh and Yeva embark on an epic cross-country journey, they discover that old...

2024 International Rubery Book Awards Winner | 2023 American Writing Awards Finalist | 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist | 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet...

Anthony Burgess was an energetic writer and composer, whose work , we see him tackling by by Alexander Griboyedov.Miser, Miser!is a bold reworking of Molire's classic comedy of 1668. Harpagon the miser is hoarding a pile of gold, which he has buried in...

Based on her research into her grandfather's past as an adopted child, Julia Park Tracey has created a mesmerizing work of historical fiction illuminating the darkest side of the Orphan Train.In 1859, women have few rights, even to their own children...

Bulk Nuts is a trove of relaxedly funny and touching graphic stories, depicting preoccupations, incidents and mysteries that resonate with many of us. From supermarkets, to dance floors, to bus rides and Melbourne nooks, Ord conveys tender and...

From debut Zimbabwean writer Tsitsi Mapepa comes the saga of the four Taha sisters, and the indomitable matriarch who carried her daughters - and her community - through times of drought and violence in their Harare neighbourhood.From the red soil of her...

A tender and poignant debut of the redemptive power of unexpected friendship.In an old-fashioned fishing community on Morecambe Bay, change is imperceptibly slow. Treacherous tides sweep the quicksands, claiming everything in their path.As a boy, Arthur...

"The novel is a quiet but strong tour de force."~Marly Swick, author of Evening News: A Novel1992. Tyler Manning- high school teacher, part-time farmer, bachelor of 38-is planning his first day of summer vacation when a strange car approaches his Kansas...

'I've led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me.'This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai's masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN - the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan - tells the story of...