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4.5Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Four women, three continents, and the private accounting each of them keeps of the life they meant to have.
Released 4 March 2025
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4.3Death of the Author
by Nnedi Okorafor
A disabled Nigerian American novelist writes a robot epic that becomes the biggest book on Earth - and then the book starts writing her.
Released 14 January 2025
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4.2The Antidote
by Karen Russell
Dust Bowl Nebraska, 1935: a 'prairie witch' banks the memories her neighbours cannot bear to keep.
Released 11 March 2025
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4.4We Do Not Part
by Han Kang
A writer travels through a blizzard to save a friend's bird, and walks into the buried history of Jeju Island.
Released 21 January 2025
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4.3Flesh
by David Szalay
From a Hungarian housing estate to Mayfair money, a life told almost entirely in what its owner will not say.
Released 3 April 2025
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4.1Theft
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Three young Tanzanians come of age as tourism, NGOs and old family debts rearrange Zanzibar around them.
Released 18 March 2025
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by Allegra Goodman
A sixteenth-century French heiress is marooned on an island in the Gulf of St Lawrence with a lover, a nurse and no plan.
Released 4 February 2025
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Two broke brothers in Montana take a job poaching antlers from Yellowstone. It is a bad idea and they know it.
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Katabasis
by R. F. Kuang
Two rival Cambridge magicians descend into Hell to retrieve their dead supervisor's soul - and his letter of reference.
Published 26 August 2025
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The Antidote
by Karen Russell
Dust Bowl Nebraska, 1935: a 'prairie witch' banks the memories her neighbours cannot bear to keep.
Published 11 March 2025
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Flesh
by David Szalay
From a Hungarian housing estate to Mayfair money, a life told almost entirely in what its owner will not say.
Published 3 April 2025
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We Do Not Part
Han Kang · Literary Fiction
A writer travels through a blizzard to save a friend's bird, and walks into the buried history of Jeju Island.
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Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor · Science Fiction
A disabled Nigerian American novelist writes a robot epic that becomes the biggest book on Earth - and then the book starts writing her.
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Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah · Literary Fiction
Three young Tanzanians come of age as tourism, NGOs and old family debts rearrange Zanzibar around them.
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