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Black Butterflies: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
The Other Americans
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Patchwork
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
Farewell Fountain Street
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Mexican Gothic: The extraordinary international bestseller, 'a new classic of the genre'
The Selfless Act of Breathing
The Color of Air: A Novel
Midnight at Malabar House (The Malabar House Series): Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger and Shortlisted for the Theakstons Cri
Wings of Dust
River Spirit
Witches
Qissat: Short Stories by Palestinian Women
The Day the Earth Bloomed
Ancestor Stones
Mr Iyer Goes to War
So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans
A Million Aunties: An emotional, feel-good novel about friendship, community and family
Kicking Tongues
The Suns of Independence
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
The Shape of Family: A Novel
Call and Response
The Strange Man
Black Butterflies: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2023
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
Question 7
The Bridge on the Drina
The Library Book
War Childhood: From Sarajevo to Syria, Memories of Life and Hope
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Women & Power: A Manifesto
The Little Red Chairs
The Conductor
Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023
Lie in the Dark
Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK: A History of Knowledge Under Attack
Black Soul
The Dream Hotel: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
The Other Americans
The Moor's Account
Watch Us Dance: The vibrant new novel from the bestselling author of Lullaby
The Country of Others
For Bread Alone
The Sheltering Sky
Beyond the Devil's Teeth: Journeys in Gondwanaland
In Arabian Nights
Invisible Man
Song of Solomon
The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award
A Bollywood State of Mind: A journey into the world's biggest cinema
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
The Pact We Made
All the Light We Cannot See
Here Comes the Sun: 'Stuns at every turn' - Marlon James
An Artist of the Floating World
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
The House of the Spirits
The Apple Tree: A Ghost Story for Christmas
Nancy Drew Omnibus Vol. 1
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Cannibal
New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology
The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4
Augustown
Black Leopard, Red Wolf: Dark Star Trilogy Book 1
A Brief History of Seven Killings: Special 10th Anniversary Edition of the Booker Prizewinner
Patsy: Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award 2020
Here Comes the Sun: 'Stuns at every turn' - Marlon James
Selected Poems of Derek Walcott
The Tempest
Complete Poems
The Ministry of Time: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2025
Ariel
Crime and Punishment
Patchwork
Summoning the Rains. Third FEMRITE Regional Residency for African Women Writers
The Pot and Other Stories. Stories of the 6th FEMRITE Residency for African Women Writers
Sula and Ja
The Elephant Girl
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Space Crone
The Sex Lives of African Women
Shuggie Bain
The Kite Runner
A Little Life
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
The Color Purple: A Special 40th Anniversary Edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
The Furrows: From the Prize-winning author of The Old Drift
Kumukanda
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024
The Unwomanly Face of War
There are Rivers in the Sky
Shoko's Smile
The Best American Short Stories 2023
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller
How We Disappeared: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
The Accusation: Forbidden Stories From Inside North Korea
The Return of Martin Guerre
Martin Guerre (Dodo Press)
White Chrysanthemum
The Pachinko Parlour
Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories
The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How One Girl Fought to Save Herself, Her Sister and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World
A Grain of Wheat
The Promised Land
The Other Woman
Auma's Long Run
The Havoc of Choice
Street Life
Unbowed: My Autobiography
In Bibi's Kitchen
Secret Lives & Other Stories
Birth of a Dream Weaver: A Writer’s Awakening
Oral Literature of the Maasai
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM
Desert Flower
Black Water Sister
The Accidental Malay
The House of Doors
The Garden of Evening Mists
Five Star Billionaire
Strangers on a Pier: Portrait of a Family
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
We, the Survivors
Sidesplitter: How To Be From Two Worlds At Once
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
Velvet: A Novel
Granada: A Novel
The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine
Ben Barka Lane
In the Time of Love
Out Of Place: A Memoir
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Evil Eye: A Novel
A Woman is No Man
The Blue Between Sky and Water
My Voice Sought the Wind
Light in Gaza: Essays for the Future
Against the Loveless World: Winner of the Palestine Book Award
In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story
Farewell Fountain Street
The Sultan of Byzantium
Many and Many a Year Ago
Songs My Mother Never Taught Me
A Complicated Passion: The Life and Work of Agnes Varda
An Ottoman Traveller
Love Is More Thicker Than Forget And Other Poems
The Keeper of Ruins
Human, All Too Human
The Open Road
The Man Who Planted Trees: A novel from the Vintage Earth collection
Montano's Malady
Why Marianne Faithfull Matters
Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series)
All Passion Spent
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
The End of Spring
Of Noble Origins: A Palestinian Novel
The Book of Epiphanies: An Egyptian Novel
The Mahfouz Dialogs
Arab Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide, 1873-1999
The Woman from Tantoura: A Novel from Palestine
I Was Born There, I Was Born Here
Traces of Enayat
Radius: A Story of Feminist Revolution
Reflections On Exile: And Other Literary And Cultural Essays
Orientalism
You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Writings 2011-2021
The Thousand Faces of Night
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Mexican Gothic: The extraordinary international bestseller, 'a new classic of the genre'
Gods of Jade and Shadow
The Beautiful Ones
Velvet Was The Night: a delicious, twisted noir from the New York Times bestselling author of MEXICAN GOTHIC
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Untamed Shore: by the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic
Prime Meridian
Silver Nitrate: a dark and gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author
The Yellow Wallpaper
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Carmilla: The dark sapphic romance that inspired Dracula
Gothic Tales
My Cousin Rachel
Dragonwyck
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
The Selfless Act of Breathing
Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined
No Place To Call Home: Love, Loss, Belonging
The Life and Times of Ota Benga
REFUGE: The Collected Poetry of JJ Bola
Fly Boy
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Little Prince: Colour Illustrations
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
The Lonely Londoners
The Allegory of the Cave
Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
The Kite Runner
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Color of Air: A Novel
The Brightest Star: A Historical Novel Based on the True Story of Anna May Wong
Dreaming Water
The Joy Luck Club
How Much of These Hills is Gold: ‘A tale of two sisters during the gold rush … beautifully written’ The i, Best Books of the Yea
Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Hawaii: A Novel
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
The Grapes of Wrath
Midnight at Malabar House (The Malabar House Series): Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger and Shortlisted for the Theakstons Cri
The Dying Day
The Lost Man of Bombay: The thrilling new mystery from the acclaimed author of Midnight at Malabar House
Death of a Lesser God
Ice-Candy Man
Disoriental
Partition: The Long Shadow
Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
The Widows of Malabar Hill
The Women's Courtyard
The Raj Quartet - Vol 1
The Crow Eaters
Rajinder Singh Bedi: Selected Short Stories
A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There
Bombay Stories
Here Comes the Sun: 'Stuns at every turn' - Marlon James
Patsy: Winner of the LAMBDA Literary Award 2020
Among Flowers
The Autobiography of My Mother
Annie John
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Dust Tracks On A Road
Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Farming Of Bones
Claire of the Sea Light
Everything Inside
Song of Solomon
Home
Jazz
Fit for the Gods: Greek Mythology Reimagined
Letters to a Writer of Colour
We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage
This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers
Kink
Alanna: The First Adventure
Sand and Foam and Other Poems
A Kind of Spark
What Maisie Knew
The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder
Papillon
The Night Ship
The Arabian Nights Vol.1: The Marvels and Wonders of the Thousand and One Nights
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
A Fistful of Moonlight: New Fiction from Assam
Rising After the Fall: Afghan Women Share Their Stories
99 Nights in Logar
The American Way: Stories of Invasion
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
Sparks Like Stars: A Novel
A House Without Windows: A Novel
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell: A Novel
The Swallows Of Kabul
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush
Taliban: The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
My Life with the Taliban
The Patience Stone
War Gardens: A Journey Through Conflict in Search of Calm
Travels with Myself and Another
The Forever War: Dispatches from the War on Terror
The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird: New Fiction by Afghan Women
The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Don McCullin: The New Definitive Edition
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Dear Mrs. Naidu
A People's History of Heaven
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters
The Space Between Us
Augustown
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Oliver Twist
Hard Times (Vintage Classics Dickens Series)
The Death of Vivek Oji
Half The Sky: How to Change the World
The Holy Woman
Revolt
The Concubine and the Slave-Catcher: Stories From Around The World
Shame
Maps for Lost Lovers
The Night Diary
The Wandering Falcon
Train to Pakistan
Exit West: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems
Home Fire: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
Greek Tragedy
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare
The Mountains Sing: Runner-up for the 2021 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Spring Essence: The Poetry of H Xun Huong
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975
Water Puppets
water/tongue
The Book of Salt
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Green Rice
The Sorrow of War
The Lover
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
The Song of Kieu: A New Lament
Augustown
Ascent to Omai
At Sea: In Word and Image
The Guyana Quartet: 'Genius' (Jamaica Kincaid)
Far District
House of Lords and Commons
The Lazarus Poems
Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture
Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
The Lonely Londoners
The Histories
Mrs Dalloway
The Rastafarians: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
Trainspotting: A special edition of the cult classic
Mr Loverman
Mrs Mohr Goes Missing: 'An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.' Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Karolina, or the Torn Curtain
Grey Bees: A captivating, heartwarming story about a gentle beekeeper caught up in the war in Ukraine
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
Birds Without Wings
We
The Lying Room
The Unheard
The Miniaturist
The Devil In The White City
The Magician of Lublin
Miss Marple’s Final Cases
Bleak House
The Terracotta Dog
The Name of the Rose
Sweet Bean Paste: The International Bestseller
The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: The moving, unforgettable, Japanese-set international bestseller - inspired by true even
Japan: The Cookbook
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Kitahara Hakushu: His Life and Poetry
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
Tales from the Cafe
Convenience Store Woman
Three Apples Fell from the Sky: The International Bestseller
The Island: The million-copy Number One bestseller 'A moving and absorbing holiday read'
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Dominoes: One: Housemates
The Aosawa Murders
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai
Malala's Magic Pencil
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Shortlisted for the 2022 Felix Dennis Prize
All the Light We Cannot See
The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian, My Story of Rescue, Hope and Triumph
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Survivor: Auschwitz, the Death March and my fight for freedom
Not the Type: Finding my place in the real world
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History
The Beekeeper of Aleppo: The heartbreaking tale that everyone's talking about
The Choice: A true story of hope
The Beekeeper of Sinjar: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Three Apples Fell from the Sky: The International Bestseller
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Frankenstein in Baghdad: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2018
The Master and Margarita
The White Guard: New Translation
Of Strangers and Bees: A Hayy ibn Yaqzan Tale
Manaschi
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller
Zuleikha: The International Bestseller
My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
Burning Orchards
The Spice Box Letters
Cider With Rosie
Lark Rise to Candleford
Black Mamba Boy
The Fortune Men: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Of The Year Award
The Orchard of Lost Souls
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World
The Shadow King
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
Romance in Marseille: And Three Short Stories
North to Paradise: A Memoir
An Account of the British Settlement at Aden, in Arabia.
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing
All the Light We Cannot See
Sooley: The Gripping Bestseller from John Grisham
Waiting For The Wild Beasts To Vote
Beloved: Special archival edition
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
The Space Between Us
The Secrets Between Us: A Novel
The Story Hour: A Novel
The Weight of Heaven LP
Sugar in Milk
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2017
Master and Man
A Fine Balance: The epic modern classic
The Henna Artist: A Reese's Book Club Pick
The Golden Son: A Novel
The Parsis
The Secret Keeper of Jaipur: A novel from the bestselling author of The Henna Artist
The Foreign Legion Omnibus: Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur, and Beau Ideal
Loot: Britain and the Benin Bronzes (Revised and Updated Edition)
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Blood and Bronze: The British Empire and the Sack of Benin
Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain
Nation: Special Edition
The Big Sleep and Other Novels
The Lady in the Lake and Other Novels
The Little Sister
The Long Good-bye
The High Window
The Mask of Dimitrios
Uncommon Danger
Journey into Fear
The Maltese Falcon: Featuring the iconic detective Sam Spade, now on TV as Monsieur Spade
Flesh and Bone and Water
Ancient Tillage
Gooseberries
Everything You Ever Wanted: A Florence Welch Between Two Books Pick
Atonement
Clap When You Land
Love In The Time Of Cholera
Mr Loverman
Dominicana: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
The Kite Runner
The Sense of an Ending: The classic Booker Prize-winning novel
Austerlitz
Lost Cat: A Memoir
Telenovelas and Transformation: Saving Brazil’s Television Industry
Dom Casmurro
Two Babushkas
Girl
Brick Lane: By the bestselling author of LOVE MARRIAGE
Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
Ethiopia: Recipes and traditions from the horn of Africa
East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
Book of Enoch: Spck Classic
The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
The Testament of Mary
Handwriting
Tradition & Change in Ethiopia: Social and Cultural Life as Reflected in Amharic Fictional Literature (1930-1974)
The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974
History Of The City Of Gondar
Mussolini in Ethiopia, 1919–1935: The Origins of Fascist Italy's African War
Mr Loverman
Manifesto: A radically honest and inspirational memoir from the Booker Prize winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Hello Mum: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
The Emperor's Babe: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Blonde Roots: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Soul Tourists: From the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Ballet Shoes
The Runaway Heart
The Women's Room
Hollywood Wives
Rainbow Milk: an Observer 2020 Top 10 Debut
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
Best Short Stories
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot: The new and unforgettable Richard & Judy Book Club pick
Dr Zhivago
A Gentleman in Moscow
Love and Youth: Essential Stories
The View from Castle Rock
Open Secrets
Russian Short Stories from Pushkin to Buida
A Nest of Gentlefolk and Other Stories (riverrun editions)
The Gulag Archipelago
The Oxford Book of Short Stories
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Novellas: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated – Also includes ‘Asya’ and ‘F
The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Ancestor Stones
Shame
Salt Houses
The Memory of Love: Shortlisted for the Orange Prize
The Girl with the Louding Voice: The Bestselling Word of Mouth Hit That Will Win Over Your Heart
The Color Purple: Now a major motion picture from Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg
Purple Hibiscus
The House of Bernarda Alba and Other Plays
Not Without My Daughter
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The God of Small Things: Winner of the Booker Prize
A Suitable Boy: THE CLASSIC BESTSELLER AND MAJOR BBC DRAMA
Mornings in Jenin: Over a million copies sold - a classic of modern Palestinian writing
Fortune's Daughters
We, the Survivors
Five Star Billionaire
Map of the Invisible World
The Harmony Silk Factory
The Outsider
Two Caravans
Jude the Obscure
Down and Out in Paris and London
Alias Grace
The Year of the Runaways
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
In the Country: 'Superb' Sigrid Nunez, author of The Friend
Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
The Map of Salt and Stars
A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
Chocolat: (Chocolat 1)
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
The Mermaid of Black Conch: The spellbinding winner of the Costa Book of the Year as read on BBC Radio 4
How to Train Your Dragon: Book 1
A Short History of Nearly Everything
My Name Is Leon
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
A Place Called Winter: Costa Shortlisted 2015: The epic and tender bestselling novel of love, compassion and living again
What to Read Next: How to Make Books Part of Your Life
The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER
Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain
The Wizards of Once: Book 1
Becoming Dinah
Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers