Inspired by Melissa Chadburns’ Filipino heritage and it’s folklore, A Tiny Upward Shove traces the life of a woman touched by death and its transcendence.

Award winning writer Emily St John Mandel returns to the page with shifting timelines and familiar characters. Her cool and delicate prose absorbs us into this sci-fi offering. Following on from her previous works The Glass House and Station Eleven, Sea of Tranquility is a dazzling study in passing time.

One of our most anticipated releases of the year, award-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson offers up an incredible experiment in form. Constructing A Nervous System has the early instincts if a classic, we’re here for it.

In 1960s China, during the violent Cultural Revolution, a teenage girl named Mei is recruited by the Communist Party and drawn into the inner life of the Chairman leading the upheaval. She becomes his confidant and romantic partner, constantly fighting off jealous young women who’d like to take her place, including the Chairman’s wife. But when Mei is assigned an important political mission, she grows disillusioned and must make wrenching decisions. Forbidden City is a deeply researched, captivating novel that offers a fresh perspective on a tumultuous era.

Patel’s mesmerising debut shines a brilliant light on the vilified queen from the Ramayana. As the only girl of eight royal siblings, Kaikeyi grows up knowing her value as a person is determined by her eventual marriage. When her mother is banished, Kaikeyi is forced to take up her duties in the royal court.

Part heist, part cultural justice - Portrait of a Thief follows Will Chen, a Chinese American Art History Student at Harvard (swoon) and a crew of talented students looking to reclaim priceless artefacts in a highly illegal operation. This novel explores the complex relationship of identity and culture against the backdrop of an Ocean’s Eleven style swindle.