This inventive novel-within-a-novel takes on the question of how to write through conflict while trying to save a snail from the brink of exinction.

A memoir that delivers a feast of memory, longing and the meals that hold us together.

A Millennial couple living in a gentrified Berlin carefully curate their lives and tastes – but is the novels’s satire successful or belated?

Five childhood friends come of age in a small desert town. Over the course of 24 hours, a series of catastrophes across time and space, lead to a phone booth in the middle of nowhere, ringing…

The upcoming fiction, non-fiction and poetry that’s caught our eye in 2026.

Starting from the 1979 Iranian revolution, The Nights Are Quiet In Tehran centres on one family and the far-reaching impact of their father’s involvement.

A surreal detective story where ennui wears a trench coat, a sheep might be God and your feelings get herded off a cliff.

During a rapidly fading summer on Long Island, The Guest follows grifter Alex as she tries to survive the week before Labour Day.

Eleven writers explore missed connections, lost loves and grief, environmental destruction, climate change and over-farming in this surreal short story collection.

Pollock’s second novel is about fandom, friendship and finding your way in the world.

If you had the chance to meet one person for one night who had died, who would it be?

In Dead Ends, Byres has created a close, intimate novel that hums with life, death and whatever might hover in between.

Talty’s powerful short story collection traces a Penobscot man’s search for belonging amid love, loss, tragedy and the haunting of colonisation.

A brief yet powerful debut novel that intertwines personal loss with collective grief, exploring love, motherhood and survival as a Black woman in a world marked by violence.

In this debut novel, a journalist’s search for change leads her into the mysteries of a secluded group living on the edges of society.

Plastic Budgie is a sharply funny and emotionally rich debut work of autofiction, charting the narrator’s tumultuous coming-of-age in Adelaide.

Elvery delivers a richly layered, time-bending novel about power, womanhood and the spectral weight of untold stories.

Nour’s memoir is a moving read about finding oneself amidst the chaos of a loving yet intrusive family.

An urgent and moving anthology of contemporary global voices from the Palestine Festival of Literature.

Disillusioned by her life in New York, Ruth slips away to a lakeside town in Guatemala to seek the elusive promise of happiness and belonging.