A comprehensive new history of Shanghai, revealing its vital place in Chinese history and politics across the centuries.

Scion is a gripping sci-fi thriller in which a contract killer assigned to protect a scientist from assassination finds himself in the crosshairs.

A joyful journey into how to live more hopefully in hard times, from million-copy Sunday Times bestseller Caitlin Moran - perfect for fans of Wintering.

A novel of thirty self-contained, stylistically innovative chapters, all of them responding in their own way to the titular question, and all of them written with a power and ingenuity reminiscient of Virginia Woolf and Thomas Bernhard.

From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches.

From the bestselling and award-winning novelist, Octavia E. Butler. Completing the Patternist series, a new edition of her cult classic novel, now in print for the first time in fifty years.

Meet a dazzling array of bold, brainy, mischievous and sometimes downright wicked women in this witty, empowering guide to Shakespeare’s fiercest female characters

Brilliantly plotted, witty and compelling, Our Noble Selves reaffirms Kate Atkinson's place as one of the greatest chroniclers of our times.

If Want sparked the fire of a quiet revolution, More gives women the fuel to let it roar. In this electrifying sequel to the landmark bestseller, Gillian Anderson invites us to leave shame and fear at the door as she dials up the heat on women's sexual fantasies and dares us to want more.

Now, Autonomy is a novel about the echoes of the past in the present; about the way in which history repeats, even if the lyrics don’t always rhyme.

The Blessing and the Burden gives a rare insight into the cosmopolitan hub of Broome during the heyday of the pearling and boat-building industries.

From the international bestselling author: this daring final novel of her Country of Others trilogy is a haunting story of self-discovery, truth and power, sex and lies..

Anthropologist Ruben Andersson shows how Big Security rose to power, generating unprecedented profits while failing to protect us.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard comes an epic adventure of love and betrayal amid a brutal war for the high seas.

The prize-winning new book from the bestselling author of The Bookseller of Kabul.

From Booker-shortlisted author Neel Mukherjee, a devastating new novel that exposes the myths of individual choice. How have we come to live this way? At what cost? Who pays the price?

A moving, riveting and immersive story of six Iranians who, together, lived the entire arc of modern Iranian history: the promise of the 1979 revolution, its betrayal by the Islamic mafia state and a people's undying spirit of resistance.

A gripping eleven-sided biography and audacious re-reckoning of nonfiction's velocities by the author of Golden Boy, voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's 'Best Cricket Book Ever'.

A gripping eleven-sided biography and audacious re-reckoning of nonfiction's velocities by the author of Golden Boy, voted Wisden Cricket Monthly's 'Best Cricket Book Ever'.

Infused with Helle Helle’s subtlety and dark humour, and brought into English in Martin Aitken’s virtuosic translation, Hafni Says explores the desire to be anyone but yourself – and what it means to try to make yourself anew.

This urgent book outlines how fascism has returned to Western Democracies - and how we can stop it

The finest book yet from the bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest: an ageing man with an unreliable mind plans the final days before he flies to Switzerland

When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence.

From the Pulitzer Prize shortlisted novelist, a story of guilt, innocence, and a boy on the cusp of adolescence.

In Foreign Return, Neha Kale interweaves personal narrative with art criticism to explore the idea of home.

Set in a vanished rural world of ghosts and devils, this is a beautiful coming-of-age novel from the Polish Nobel Laureate.

From critically acclaimed and award-winning author, Claire Fuller, Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.

Luminous and intimate, The Given World is a story of belonging, loss and the richly interwoven connections between people, history and place. From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of All Among the Barley.

An Indispensable yet illuminating history of the world, told through its most commonly mined, traded and consumed product: Salt

A compulsive love story from a New York Times bestselling author that spins on the consequence of lies and our capacity for resilience.