This Booker-listed epic set in Aids-era Kingston is a triumph – bitter, bawdy and ravishingly queer

An explosive novel probes the roots of homophobia in Senegal, where a chilling anti-LGBTQ+ law just passed.

With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose

Spanning eras of conflict and Covid in Lebanon, this irresistible queer coming-of-age tale explores what it means to be truly free

Twenty years in the making, Desai’s bravura, Booker-shortlisted The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny is a love story, surrealist mystery, study of identity ...

Medea tells her side of the story in a reimagining of the ancient Greek stories that puts women centre stage

Castillo’s ambitious second novel, set in the worlds of social media and VR, considers labour and storytelling in a world veering right

This gloriously absurd Prague-set tale, in which one woman is split into seven selves, is a wild ride

This outrageous skewering of the modern dating landscape confronts toxic masculinity and the contradictions of female desire

This is a powerful story of debt and obligation set against the tourism boom in post-colonial Tanzania

An astute debut novel follows the personal and political upheaval of three friends in a thinly fictionalised contemporary Mumbai

Funny, spooky and surreal, this shapeshifting novel from the Francophone author explores Congolese politics