On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vardø is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vardø wiped out in an instant. Now the women must fend for themselves. Eighteen months later, a…

Sisterhood. Secrets. Survival Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world awaits. Has it been abandoned? Devastated by a virus? Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. But, as…

Winner of 2026 Miles Franklin Award | Winner of 2026 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction How do you mourn your father when you know his secrets? After many years abroad, Roz and Harun return to Malaysian Borneo for the funeral of their father Yusuf – and to reckon with their inheritance. A renowned palm-oil…

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Young Korero has spent her entire life on an island so remote its inhabitants have forgotten the word for stranger. When a mysterious visitor lands on the island, her people are desperate and on the brink of starvation. But the wayward stranger offers a choice: they can remain in the only home…

Author shortlisted twice for the Booker Prize and twice for the Goldsmiths Prize Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius — a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why…

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2026 | Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Fiction Out of money and with little to show for his art school education, John-Calum Macleod takes the ferry home to the island of Harris to find that not much has changed except for him. In the windswept croft where he grew…