Fiction
The Lake’s Water Is Never Sweet
Giulia Caminito
In her English-language debut, award-winning Italian novelist Giulia Caminito follows a teenage girl as her family transitions from Rome’s impoverished outskirts to a fraught new beginning in a tranqu…
The Whisper Place
Mindy Mejia
How do you find a woman who doesn’t exist? As a former police officer and a psychic detective, Max Summerlin and Jonah Kendrick may not be the most conventional business partners. But together, they h…
A Man in the Storm
Gaëlle Nohant
January 1917. The war drags on, grinding soldiers into the trenches while those left behind are stretched to their limits. At nineteen, Rosalie is forced to leave her boarding school, uprooted from Pa…
Milady
Adélaïde de Clermont-Tonnerre
Set in 17th-century France, Milady offers a bold, feminist reimagining of one of literature’s most reviled heroines—granting her a voice, and her own story, for the first time. For fans of Maggie O’Fa…
Florida Palms
Joe Pan
The Outsiders meet Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation. It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, an…
Livia in Rome
Bruna De Luca
Could Rome be where the heart is? Sixteen-year-old Scottish–Italian Livia feels like an outsider, spending the summer in her grandmother’s bar in Rome. Smug local boy Giulio works there too, and quick…
The Blue Place (Aud Torvingen)
Nicola Griffith
The first of Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud Torvingen crime series. It would be so easy—a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last…
Perfect Sense
Christine Pillainayagam
Maggie is trying to work out who she wants to be, other than the girl who burned down the science block and the least exceptional of the Dashwood sisters. When she’s suspended and sent to Cliveden, a…
Pig
Matilde Pratesi
Pigs are Valentina’s safe space. When she’s feeling overwhelmed, she lists the breeds from A-Z until her mind becomes quiet again. Valentina struggles to live life without order. Every morning, she re…
Greta and Marguerite
Kalindi Ramphul
Passion, betrayal, friendships and family secrets… A perfect escape… When turbulence on a flight from Bombay to Paris brings middle-aged Romuald and flight attendant Greta together, it’s love at first…