Sharp, deliberate and provocative, this new novel is built on the common phrase that all mothers have uttered: "Who do I have to kill to get some help around here?”

The Husbands begins with Nora Spangler, a successful attorney who struggles to keep up with her ‘second shift’, that is scheduling doctor appointments, sending out holiday cards and packing lunches for her husband. As such, she is mystified when she meets the residents of Dynasty Ranch, a group of high-powered women with enviably supportive spouses, who seem to really ‘have it all’.

Join Nora in this feminist thriller as she discovers their secret to success.

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“Like many of the ghost stories I’ve grown up with, this one needs to start with a death…”

In Seeing Ghosts, Chinese-American journalist Kat Chow writes to her mother, who died unexpectedly from cancer. A patient and poetic portrait of grief, Chow remembers her mother through fragmented stories of the past, before she emigrated from China and Hong Kong to America and Cuba.

As Chow excavates her family’s ghosts and history across three generations, this memoir becomes a poignant meditation on how life—both hers and of her parents—is shaped by the ebbs and flow of loss and sorrow.

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Alexander Kleeman follows up her acclaimed debut novel about rampant consumerism and unrealistic beauty standards, You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, with yet another piercing commentary on the state of the world.

The story follows novelist Patrick Hamlin, who arrives in Hollywood to oversee the production of a movie adaptation of his book—except California is in environmental decay, facing drought, wildfire and an ominous new brand of synthetic water. Set in an age of corporate supremacy and alternative facts, it becomes unclear whether the sun-scorched city Something New Under The Sun is a fictional rendering of a dystopian present or a warning of a catastrophic future.

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Author of The Shining and It, Stephen King has experimented with different genres over the years, from horror to fantasy and time travel. In his latest novel, King introduces Billy Summers, a killer for hire with a moral compass carrying out his one last hit.

However, despite the rather formulaic premise to a typical crime thriller, Billy Summers benefits from King’s genre-hopping experience by delving into the psyche of the main protagonist as a war veteran. Infused with a unique and compelling American noir voice, this novel is as contemplative as it is thrilling, with heart-stopping twists and turns.

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This stunning debut from Naweez Ahmed tells the story of a Muslim-Indian family at odds. They live in San Francisco and Texas, just as the country is poised to elect their first African-American president.

Beautifully written and brimming with poetry of Wordsworth, Keats and the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is told from the perspective of the protagonist’s child from the moment he is born and explores the clash between tradition and change, ideology and reality, forgiveness and retribution.

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A timely and hilarious satire on the new normal of working from home, Several People Are Typing follows Gerald, who accidentally uploads his consciousness onto his PR company’s Slack channel. With his mind stuck in this new digital realm, he can only watch as events unfold in the real world, such as his body being hijacked by Slackbot, the channel’s AI assistant.

Kasulke’s debut novel is an easy read that pokes fun at office culture and its online evolution.  

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Critically acclaimed novelist, Elif Shafak returns with a spell-binding story about two young lovers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, whose clandestine romance begins under a beautiful fig tree on a beautiful Greek island. Decades later, their British daughter Ada Kazantzakis goes on a journey to trace their love story, plagued by violent wars and displacement.

In Island of Missing Trees, Shafak intricately constructs an enchanting tale of family and identity that will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

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Who can resist a novel about novels? Sara Nisha Adams’ heartwarming debut follows the unlikely friendship between a grieving widower, Mukesh and an anxious teenager, Aleisha, working at the local library.

A reading list of books crumpled in the back of a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird transports the two characters into the fictional worlds of Pride and Prejudice, The Life of Pi and Little Women—among many others, as they discover the power of books and how it can heal and bring people together.  

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Billie Jean King has 20 Wimbledon championships, thirty-nine grand-slam titles and a watershed victory over Bobby Riggs in the infamous Battle of the Sexes. But she is so much more than a tennis player.

In her personal life, she has struggled with her sexual identity and overcome an eating disorder and near financial ruin. An unwavering activist, she has been involved in women’s movements and anti-war protests, and fought for the LGBTQ+ community. In this autobiography, the legendary Billie Jean King reintroduces herself to the world in her own words.

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It would seem that boarding school thrillers seem to be dominating the YA genre this month. Lesson in Vengeance brings together two unlikely friends with a curiosity for the occult as they explore the haunted halls of Dalloway School.

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How We Fall Apart is another prep school page-turner centred around a group of friends, who are the prime suspects in the death of a fellow student and ex-best friend. Zhao leans into iconic teen tropes, from the disintegration of group dynamics reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer to an anonymous, Gossip Girl-esque social media presence named ‘The Proctor’.

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Edgar Award-winning author, Naomi Hirahara has spent the last thirty years researching and archiving Japanese-American history. Her latest crime novel follows its young protagonist Aki Ito in 1944 Chicago who is desperate to uncover the truth behind her sister’s apparent suicide on the night that the Ito family would finally be reunited, after being incarcerated at a camp in Manzanar, California.

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