The Secret Lives of Colour
There are some books that feel as though they were designed, not simply written, and The Secret Lives of Colour is unmistakably one of them. Kassia…
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
There is something deeply improbable about a book that can make you laugh out loud on public transit while reading about severed heads arranged in…
Salt: A World History
Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History is the kind of book that rearranges your sense of the world by picking up something ordinary and…
The New Me
Thirty-year-old Millie is a long-term temp at a Chicago interior design firm, where she answers an unringing phone for twelve dollars an hour under…
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
Katya Apekina's debut novel opens with a scene that sets the tone for everything that follows: sixteen-year-old Edie discovers her mother…
The Incendiaries
The Incendiaries is a slim, coiled thing - barely two hundred pages - that attempts to pack the weight of first love, religious extremism, grief,…
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Andrea Lawlor's debut novel, first released by the tiny Rescue Press in 2017 before its Vintage and Picador reissues swept it into wider…
The Glorious Heresies
Lisa McInerney's debut novel arrives with the swagger of a writer who knows exactly what she wants to do and possesses the linguistic…
An Untamed State
Roxane Gay's debut opens with a line that functions as both premise and warning: "Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was…
Preparation for the Next Life
A decade on from its publication by the tiny and now-defunct Tyrant Books, Atticus Lish's debut novel still reads like something stumbled upon…
A Questionable Shape
A Questionable Shape opens with: "What we know about the undead so far is this: they return to the familiar." From there, Bennett…
The Panopticon
Jenni Fagan's debut novel arrives announcing a voice so fully formed it almost seems implausible as a first book. The Panopticon drops us into…
