Kaitlin Jefferys Contributor

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a tear-jerking story about an extraordinary and unlikely friendship between two terminally ill hospital patients. 

If I Had Your Face is an electrifying and compelling debut that exposes the class system in South Korea. 

In The Devil You Know, Blow provocatively proposes a reversal of the Great Migration, urging African-Americans living in the Northern States of America to resettle in the South. 

Winner of the Influential Japan Bookseller’s award, Lonely Castle in the Mirror explores child mental health and stresses the importance of human connection.

Publishing on 5 August, The Soulmate Equation is Christina Lauren’s latest feel-good, witty rom-com. 

Erasure is a razor-sharp satire on how race operates in the publishing industry and society. 

Akwaeke Emezi’s highly anticipated memoir Dear Senthuran is a musing on identity, displacement, and trauma. 

Part memoir, part examination of motherhood, The Wild Track follows Margaret on her five-year journey to adopting a child. But pivotally, the book asks, ‘what makes any woman want to become a mother?’ 

The Butterfly Lampshade, by New York Times bestselling author Aimee Bender, is a poignant tale of a mother, a daughter, and mental illness. 

How The Word is Passed: A Reckoning With The History of Slavery in America is Clint Smith’s first work of nonfiction. By interweaving the past with the present, Smith sketches a history of slavery that is both informative and poetical. 

Brining to the forefront topics that were off-limits to Regency-era novelists, Reputation is a feminist twist on the classic novel. From alcohol to sex, Reputation touches upon all that would once have been considered scandalous.