New Trade Paperbacks - Fiction

A lottery ticket + donuts = love in this steamy new fake dating romance from beloved author Denise Williams.

A magnificent, moving ecological fable: welcome to The Real, where Pyn-Poi's people live in harmony with nature - until a killing stink threatens their whole world.

A Granta Best Young British Novelist - The stunning new collection of stories from the award-winning author of The Liar's Dictionary and Attrib. and Other Stories.

The exquisite, intoxicating and compulsive debut novel from Hattie Williams, exploring the affair between a young publicist and a much older, celebrated author. A thought-provoking exploration of power, control and grief, Bitter Sweet is perfect for book clubs and will appeal to fans of Sally Rooney and Coco Mellors.

WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family. Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.

Rediscover the sensational 1967 literary thriller that captures the bitter struggles of postwar Black intellectuals and artists, with a foreword by Ishmael Reed and a new introduction by Merve Emre about how this explosive novel laid bare America's racial fault lines.

SOMETIMES THE ONLY PERSON WHO CAN SOLVE YOUR MURDER IS YOU.

'An astonishing novel by an astonishing writer. Playful, digressive, and pulsating with existential energy' MICHAEL MAGEE 'Fun, biting and wise' ZOE DUBNO 'As brilliant as it is dark ... unlike anything I've read before' VULTURE

A heartbreaking and life-affirming novel about small towns and second chances - from the international bestselling author of Four Letters of Love

From the two-time Emmy Award-winning producer and host of the Black & Published podcast comes a sweeping multi-generational epic following seven generations of Dupree women as they navigate love, loss, and the unyielding ties of family in the tradition of Homegoing and The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois.

PRAISE FOR THE DICTIONARY OF LOST WORDS: 'A really thought-provoking novel' Reese Witherspoon 'An enchanting story about love, loss and the power of language' Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory' _______________________

In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.