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New Releases

We publish essential, politically-engaged books about the ongoing human journey

Andrew Brooks

28 March 2024 | £16.99

Bullsh*t Comparisons will challenge the way you think about the political use and social abuse of the metaphors and metrics that warp our understanding of an unequal world.

Antonia Hylton

21 March 2024 | £20.00

New York Times Bestseller

A devastating look at how mental health ‘care’ has been historically used to oppress the Black community in the United States – told through the prism of a segregated asylum, Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane in Maryland.

Kiyoko Murata

7 March 2024 | £12.99

‘Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world’ – Yoko Ogawa

A vibrant historical novel following a tenacious and quick-witted young Japanese girl who becomes the protégée of a highest-ranking courtesan, from Akutagawa-Prize winner Kiyoko Murata

Hanako Footman

8 February 2024 | £16.99

The most captivating debut of 2024, ‘It must be read’ – Lisa Taddeo

An exquisite debut novel weaving together the voices of three young women in Japan and the UK as the threads of their lives twist and entangle in unexpected ways

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

1 February 2024 | £10.99

Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo

‘Extraordinary conversations with many of the greatest minds and most inspiring figures of our age… Together they form a snap-shot of where the peoples of the Black diaspora stand, today in the early 21st Century, and how much has been overcome to get here.’David Olusoga

Joyce Carol Oates

18 January 2024 | £12.99

‘Will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams’ – Bust

Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors – including Margaret Atwood, Raven Leilani, and Cassandra Khaw – to explore, subvert, and reinvent one of the most vital subgenres of horror.

Debra Dank

2 November 2023 | £12.99

Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, Indigenous Writers’ Prize, UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, Longlisted for the 2023 Stella Prize

Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in time and place to tell an unforgettable story of country and people.

Louise Kenward

26 October 2023 | £16.99

‘An anthology to treasure and return to’ – Elinor Cleghorn

A first-of-its-kind anthology of nature writing by authors living with chronic illness and physical disability.

Sunny Singh

19 October 2023 | £20.00

‘Prepare to laugh, sob and dance’ Telegraph

This fascinating journey through the complex histories of India, its performance traditions and cultural history is a love letter to cinema, an invitation to learn about the largest film fandom on the planet, and a window onto the rise of modern India.

Rebecca Clarren

5 October 2023 | £16.99

‘A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of the conversation about America’s political future’ – the Whiting Foundation

An award-winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors’ land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government.

David R Samson

21 September 2023 | £20.00

‘A riveting read. It’s captivating, enlightening, and thought provoking.’Steve Stewart-Williams

An astounding and inspiring look at the science behind tribalism, and how we can learn to harness it to improve the world around us.

Yelena Moskovich

14 September 2023 | £14.00

‘Moskovich writes sentences that lilt and slink, her plots developing as a slow seduction and then clouding like a smoke-filled room’Guardian

A vibrant, muscular genre-bending novel set in the coldest night of a Berlin winter as decades of Russian and Ukrainian history unfold alongside a broken love affair. The Waste Land for our times, this is a forceful, dark and unexpectedly erotic anthem for doomed youth.

Cynthia Enloe

7 September 2023 | £14.99

‘A force to be reckoned with and utterly tireless… With typical laser focus, she repeatedly questions which things society pays attention to and which we consider insignificant.’Laura Bates, Guardian

Draws on first-hand experiences of war in countries as diverse as Ukraine, Syria and Northern Ireland to show how women’s wars are not men’s wars.

Chris Belcher

17 August 2023 | £12.99

‘Absolutely not to be missed’ – Vogue

A queer teen rebel escapes small-town Appalachia and becomes Los Angeles’s Renowned Lesbian Dominatrix in this searing and darkly funny memoir that upends our ideas about desire, class, and power.

Hannah Silva

20 July 2023 | £12.99

‘My Child, the Algorithm redoes what autobiography is. Funny, inventive and moving, it raises the stakes for the rest of us writers’ — Isabel Waidner

A book about love, loss and queer single parenting co-written with a machine-learning algorithm and a toddler.

Jade Song

6 July 2023 | £14.99

‘This fantastically strange, explosive debut novel entrances even as it unsettles. It’s so brilliantly written’ — Buzzfeed

A mesmerising debut novel of sapphic longing, intense obsession and fierce, defiant becoming – enthralling and visceral, this is an unforgettable vision of adolescence in all its horrific glory.

Charlie Hertzog Young

22 June 2023 | £12.99

‘Utterly brilliant – engaging, thrilling, disturbing, revelatory, explosive’George Monbiot

An urgent, eye-opening study by leading climate change activist, researcher and writer that draws on the latest research and evidence to unravel systemic ways that climate change is driving people mad – and show how we can find inspiration in that madness.

Eliot Duncan

8 June 2023 | £12.99

‘Incendiary . . . A uniquely trans story’ Dazed

Ponyboy pops pills, snorts speed, and attempts art as he comes to terms with his transmasculinity and addiction in Paris and Berlin, in the electric debut from Eliot Duncan.

Paul Baker

25 May 2023 | £20.00

‘Paul Baker captures essence of an essentially uncapturable phenomenon making it just knowable enough for all. My dear, she’s on fire!’ – Damian Barr

By the bestselling author of Fabulosa! and Outrageous!, this reappraisal of camp across time and in all its glorious forms shows how an inescapable part of popular culture has also played an important role in equality movements as a form of protest or resistance.

Soula Emmanuel

30 March 2023 | £15.99

‘Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing’ Barry Pierce, i-D

Debut novelist Soula Emmanuel tells the story of Phoebe Forde, an Irish trans woman living in Scandinavia who unexpectedly reconnects with her first (and only) girlfriend, igniting memories she thought she’d left behind.

Dana Sachs

23 March 2023 | £12.99

‘Teaches us important lessons.’Rebecca Solnit

‘Will move and inspire you.’Adam Hochschild

As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.

Natasha Burge

23 February 2023 | £11.99

‘Surreal, vivid, haunting, mischievous, visionary’Lauren Elkin

A strikingly original memoir of autism and transcultural identity, Drifts takes us through the souks, sands and cities of the Arabian Gulf, where the author is a native-born foreigner, to discover a new mapping of the self and celebrate the many stories a place can hold.

Mim Skinner

3 November 2022 | £14.99

‘Skinner goes in search of a different way of life… a sensitive and colourful account’New Statesman

A journey around the UK’s communes, eco-villages and co-living spaces to find more compassionate, connected and sustainable ways to live.

Sarah Ladipo Manyika

6 October 2022 | £16.99

Foreword by Bernardine Evaristo

‘Extraordinary conversations with many of the greatest minds and most inspiring figures of our age… Together they form a snap-shot of where the peoples of the Black diaspora stand, today in the early 21st Century, and how much has been overcome to get here.’David Olusoga

Hanna Flint

29 September 2022 | £12.99

‘A real celebration and ode to women who hold up the art of cinema.’ Mollie Goodfellow

Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her mixed-race millennial journey towards self-acceptance through a cinematic lens.

Lars Horn

15 September 2022 | £12.99

‘Rapturous . . . [Horn] is the mystic’s David Attenborough.’New York Times Book Review

A kaleidoscopic, hallucinatory memoir that explores the trans experience through meditations on aquatic life and mythology, set against the backdrop of travels in Russia and a debilitating injury that left the author temporarily unable to speak, read and write.

Helen Benedict and Eyad Awwadawnan

9 June 2022 | £12.99

‘Heartfelt, eye-opening, timely, essential.’ — Christy Lefteri

‘This book celebrates human resilience and the capacity for hope, serving as a powerful call for tolerance.’Observer

The stories of refugees who fled violence or persecution only to become trapped in the worst refugee camps in Europe.