Shortlisted Books

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023. The International Bestseller. Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2023. A beautiful and moving novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself. 'With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the comp...

Shanghai, 2007: feeling betrayed by her American mother's engagement to their rich landlord Lu Fang, fourteen-year-old Alva begins plotting her escape. But the exclusive American School - a potential ticket out - is not what she imagined. Qingdao, 1985: newlywed Lu Fang works as a lowly shipping ...

Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, she vividly realises the raw, tumultuous emotions of a new mother, as her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of love, autonomy and cre...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES 'An absolute delight to read' DIANA EVANS 'Superb ... A strong, much needed new voice in our literature' PERCIVAL EVERETT 'A compelling hurricane of a book' ANN PATCHETT A major debut that follows a Jamai...

Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the...

1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm. Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion and confusion, greeting him with the puzzled q...