Set in postwar Netherlands, the novel follows a woman whose carefully controlled life begins to unravel when her brother arrives with his girlfriend. Repressed desire and buried history slowly turn the house into a place of mounting tension.

A controlled home begins to give way to desire and buried history.

Set during the early years of the Sri Lankan civil war, this novel follows Sashi, a young woman who dreams of becoming a doctor while her family is pulled into escalating violence. Its restrained voice traces what war takes from ordinary life.

War reshapes a girl's future and fractures the family around her.

A modern Appalachian reimagining of David Copperfield that follows a boy through poverty, addiction, foster care, and the hard lessons of growing up. Its comic, forceful voice keeps the novel moving even as it confronts brutal social realities.

A modern-day David Copperfield about a boy fighting to survive in Appalachia.

A novel that weaves together grief, loss, growing up, climate change, jazz, and attachment to material possessions. Through the idea that objects may be semi-sentient, it reflects on the power of books, stories, and listening closely to the world.

An experimental novel that traces family violence, loss, and the turbulence of adolescence in a fragmented, poetic style. It moves deep inside a girl’s consciousness while letting pain and lyricism surface together.

A fractured style lets the girl’s inner life ring out directly.

Set in a small town in the former Yugoslavia, the novel follows a young woman who investigates the mystery surrounding her grandfather’s death while folktale, family memory, and the aftereffects of war intertwine. Its hallmark is a voice where realism and legend continually blur.

Folktale and memory overlap as a family mystery unfolds.

The novel begins in the confined world shared by a mother and her young son and then follows their path back into the outside world and toward freedom. Told through both the child’s and the mother’s perspectives, it centers on trauma and renewal.

A life inside a sealed room slowly opens toward the outside world.

Set in 16th-century England, the novel follows Thomas Cromwell as he navigates Henry VIII’s court politics and power struggles. Political calculation and human complexity are rendered with meticulous detail.

Court intrigue unfolds through Cromwell’s calculating eyes.

Set against Nigeria’s struggle for independence and the Biafran War, the novel follows people from different classes and perspectives as lives, love, and loss intertwine. Private relationships and national upheaval collide to expose the inner cost of war.

Love and loss are traced through multiple viewpoints in a time of war.

Theo loses his mother in the explosion at the Metropolitan Museum and drifts through grief, addiction, art, and crime, with a small stolen painting becoming the thread that ties his life together.

After the museum blast, a small painting becomes the thread between loss and survival.

Set in post-war London and Jamaica, the novel follows Queenie, Gilbert, Hortense, and Bernard as their lives intersect around migration, race, and the uneasy promises of Britain after the war.

A novel that weaves together empire, prejudice, war, and love to bring the realities of post-war Britain into sharp focus.

Set in 1946, the novel follows Evelyn Sert, a young Soho hairdresser who sails to Palestine and is drawn into the idealism, politics, and danger surrounding the birth of a new state.

A young hairdresser sails for Palestine and is swept into the dangerous idealism of Tel Aviv.