Pearl by Sian Hughes — A novel, longlisted last year for the Booker prize, about a woman navigating the disappearance of her mother, through an obsession with the medieval poem Pearl.
I will Greet the Sun Again by Khashayar J. Khabushani — This is a family epic about three Iranian-American boys growing up in LA, kidnapped by their father and taken to Iran, and then returning to America irrevocably changed.
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener — Following the death of her father, a woman returns to a strange family story about an ancestor who stole Peruvian artefacts and an indigenous child. By tracing this legacy, she reckons with her identity as a product of colonial violence.
TheAnthropologists by Aysegul Savas — A quirky novel about a young couple move to a big city from an unnamed home country, and calling themselves ‘The Anthropologists’, they study the local population to try to fit in.
Blackouts: A Novel by Justin Torres — A novel that tells of one man’s personal journey but through a mixture of redacted medical documents.
Comrade Papa by Gaúz — An Ivorian novel about a white French boy in the 1880s and a Black Ivorian boy in the 2020s on parallel journeys of self-discovery, one the ancestor of the other.
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women by Lisa See — Historical fiction set in 15th century China about a real historical figure called Tan Yunxian, who trained as a doctor and created a circle of powerful women in the Ming dynasty.
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang. In a world where scarcity is increasing, a top London chef takes a job at a mountaintop colony of global elites, where she gets drawn into a web of intrigue.
Somebody's Fool by Richard Russo. A funny and heartfelt account of small-town American lives.
