In a nameless city torn apart by civil war, a teenage sniper has only one goal: to fire the perfect shot. Lying in wait on rooftops, he takes aim at people below while his traumatised mother cowers in their flat.  

As the violence eats away at any sense of morality, and he kills civilians and combatants indiscriminately, his routine is disrupted by the arrival of Myrna, a fifteen-year-old girl hired to care for his mother. Soon, his increasingly disturbing obsession with her threatens to push them all into the abyss.  

Appearing in English twenty years after its original publication, the debut novel from Mathias Énard (author of Compass) is a timeless study of how violence corrodes the soul.

A fugitive flees Kuwait in the boot of a car, with documents the Chinese government wants buried. If he is caught, he will disappear. What he carries rewrites what we thought we knew about 1MDB - the financial scandal that brought down Malaysia's government and put its Prime Minister in prison.

Investigative journalist Clare Rewcastle Brown first broke the story and has spent the last decade following the money. From political upheaval in the Middle East to the corridors of Washington DC, the trail leads to China - to unbridled state power. At its heart is an unspoken contract, detailed in this real-life thriller and urgent warning of corruption.

Eva, a neurologist specialising in sleep, retreats to the isolated marshlands of the Camargue with her daughter Lucie, to protect them both from a violent man and an unravelling world.

At first an idyllic retreat, Lucie wakes one night from a disturbing dream. At the same time, children all over the world cry out in their sleep - a phenomenon that quickly ripples into waking life, heralding inexplicable calamities.

In a structurally bold and emotionally potent novel, Martinez blends myth and psychological insight to explore how collective dreams might be messages from a beleaguered planet.

This ground-breaking work weaves together biography, memoir and cultural history in an exploration of five experimental clinics in recent Western history - from a sex clinic in a stately mansion to a preventive health centre in pre-NHS London to a grassroots research initiative featuring trials run by and for people with AIDS in 1980s New York.

Each emerging in response to seismic political shifts, at their cores lies the extraordinary stories of individuals who dared to reimagine how we care for one another. Deeply personal and sharply analytical, Loiseau reframes Foucault's seminal work to think of clinics as a living, evolving practice rooted in care and collective imagination.

Mutiara and Maya's lives are irrevocably altered when their younger sister Annisa straps a bomb to her waist and commits a devastating act.

Grappling with grief, guilt and unanswered questions, their search for answers leads them to long-concealed secrets, forsaken family bonds and their grandmother's unsettling prophecies.

Paramaditha's haunting novel subversively blends Islamic mysticism, horror, and political reckoning, all seen through the ghostly lens of Indonesian folklore and occult traditions.

Tadao Ando is one of the most celebrated architects of our time. His bold, concrete buildings and their interplay with light, shadow and nature have become emblematic symbols for the modern world.

From his working-class upbringing amongst the ruins of post-war Osaka, he taught himself architecture at night from books before founding his own practice. Now at eighty-five, Ando looks back on a lifetime of making.

His first through-written book to be translated into English, it explores the stories behind his greatest buildings, acting as a guide to both the granular demands of creative works and the exhilaration of inspiration.

In early 1800s Yorkshire, Eliza May Drayden and her sisters live far from the public eye, devoted to their shared love of books. After Eliza's only novel, Haeger Mass, is finally published, it's labelled as 'ghastly' and 'immoral'. Over time, however, it's embraced by readers as a masterpiece, and tales about its reclusive author take on a life of their own.  

Inspired by the life and work of Emily Brontë, the story of Eliza May - before and after her death - unfolds through the tales of the people who met her in an absorbing literary mystery and unforgettable meditation on life, loss and the inexplicable nature of time.

China Mills presents an investigation into the lethal mechanics of Britain's social security system, that has been weaponised against the people it was meant to support, and the imaginings of a new system not built on shame.

Connecting the dots between the DWP, the arms trade, the immigrations system and colonial extraction, Mills traces the dark history of a department rooted in state-sanctioned policing.

Drawing on over a decade of activism, the book delves into the power of collective imagination, healing shame, and refusing 'perfect victim' narratives, presenting a call to action to build solidarity against state violence, but to also build welfare justice.

Three Wild Bodies contains three powerhouse novels from Catalan superstar, Eva Baltasar, telling delirious tales of queer women blazing new trails through sexuality, motherhood and friendship.

The roving narrator of Permafrost trades one home for another, moving around Europe in pursuit of liberation. In the International Booker-shortlisted Boulder, a woman must decide whether domestic bliss is what she really wants after the woman she loves wants a baby. Finally, in Mammoth, a young lesbian seduces a string of random men to get pregnant and move to a remote farmhouse in search for a more powerfully, deeply felt life.

In an age of gig work and AI, more and more workers are threatened with replacement; meanwhile dating apps present both limitless choice and competition, and demagogues stoke racist paranoia through myths of 'replacement'.

In this wide-ranging essay, Husain asks how we might redirect this fear, turning our replaceability from an individual weakness into a collective strength.  

Radical, clear-sighted, and moving, Replace Me examines both the terror and the allure in fantasies of infinite replacement, now featuring a forward by Daisy Lafarge, and an afterward by the author.

A guest at a New Year's Eve rooftop party finds a parallel universe in the building next door. A woman discovers her boyfriend's family are made of cookie dough. A man bites into a bar of Alpine chocolate to realise it's infested with maggots.

Minihorror is a surreal, delightful and terrifying collection of stories about agents of fear in our society, from the most original and imaginative of a new generation of European writers, who dares to ask: could the real horror story be life itself?

What might the future of jokes be like? And more importantly, will there be anyone left to laugh at them? These are the questions comedian and author Robin Ince interrogates in this book - and what shape the joke might hold in the future.

He looks at how jokes permeate our everyday: from understanding consciousness through jokes, to what we do and do not find funny as society changes, with jokes constantly recycling and reinventing to reflect the political landscape and being used as survival mechanisms, even sowing the seeds of insurrection.

In the end, he asks what changing technology means for the way that we tell jokes - is AI capable of humour, and if so, what does that mean for our humanity?  

A hundred years ago, in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War, young men return from the battlefield forever changed. Coming home to Greece, they seek revenge or forgiveness, all of them grieving. They might have survived the war, but peace does not come easily. These are their stories.

Hailed as the most important Greek novel of the twenty-first century, each soldier's story is bound by the red thread of gjak itself: an Arvanitic word meaning blood, bloodline, blood feud, and nation. With this thread, these interconnected tales are woven into one powerful, haunting portrait of a world in violent transition.