A masterfully crafted and haunting tale of survival, longing, and empathy, set during the Spanish Civil War.

In late 1936, eighteen-year-old Isidro Elejalde leaves his Basque village in northern Spain, spurred by the rousing words of a political essayist to join the fight to preserve his country’s democracy from insurrectionists. Months earlier, Spanish generals had launched a military coup to overthrow Spain’s newly elected left-wing government. The generals assumed the population would welcome the coup, but throughout the country citizens such as Isidro remained loyal to the ideals of democracy, and the Spanish Civil War began in bloody earnest. In Bilbao, Mariana raising her two young children while, through her writing, she decries the fascist-backed coup attempt and its German and Italian allies, imploring the world to support democracy. As the Nationalist forces assault the country, Mariana and Isidro’s lives intersect fleetingly, yet in meaningful and lasting ways. What We Tried to Bury Grows Here is a remarkable feat of research and imagination, as well as a transcendent literary accomplishment.

A candid portrayal of first love and self-discovery, from the author of the “instant queer classic”, Isaac.

Cornwall, 2018. In the quiet fishing village of Portscatho, sixteen-year-old Daniel and seventeen-year-old Jago form an unexpected connection — something neither of them can name. What unfolds is transformative, particularly for Daniel, who for the first time feels truly seen. East London, 2023. Daniel has rewritten himself: sharper, louder, queer in a way the city understands. But a visit from Jago stirs up a reckoning with his former life, forcing them both to question how much change their bond can withstand. Reminiscent of Édouard Louis and Douglas Stuart’s fiction in its blend of grit and tenderness, with an unflinching look at relationships that will appeal to fans of Sally Rooney, Orange examines how we reconcile our past selves with the people we become, those we bring with us and those we leave behind.

The award-winning Danish writer returns with a tender and piercing portrait of a mother and daughter, exploring all that is said and all that is not.

“They go for a walk by the playing fields, the anemones are out.” In the small Danish town of Rodby, a mother and her sixteen-year-old daughter live uneventfully, each day marked by routine and a quiet intimacy. Together, they are a family; complete, content — and fragile. When the mother begins to feel unwell, everything and nothing changes. They go about their lives, talk about anything but the diagnosis. The daughter takes tentative steps into adulthood. Still, illness — and the possibility of loss — cast an expansive shadow over the rituals of daily life. they is a tender and piercing exploration of a mother-daughter relationship, brought into startling focus by Helle Helle’s distinctive, immediate prose.

Felix Leiter — James Bond’s trusted friend and ally — takes centre stage in a brand-new adventure.

One job, one dame, one deadly detour. Felix Leiter takes centre stage in a brand-new adventure by legendary 007 novelist, Raymond Benson. It is 1952. Felix Leiter has returned to Manhattan after losing his job at the CIA. Determined to continue doing what he loves, he finds himself working at Pinkerton’s Detective Agency. What starts as a simple surveillance job turns into a matter of life and death when Felix stumbles upon a murder and the beautiful, yet secretive, Dora Wysocki. When Felix agrees to accompany Dora on a road trip from New York to Texas, the mystery grows — along with the heat between them — as danger and deceit lurk behind every corner.

A masterful whodunit, set in the autumn of 1988 during the lead-up to Algeria’s pivotal October riots which foreshadowed the “Black Decade” of civil war in the 1990s.

On an early autumn morning in 1988, on the outskirts of an Algerian city on the edge of the desert, a shepherd stumbles upon the lifeless body of Zakia Zaghouani, the stunning nightclub singer at the Sahara Hotel. Suspicion immediately falls on her lover, who is thrown into prison. The incompetent Inspector Hamid begins an investigation. So does the defence lawyer of the main suspect. Family, friends, and close ones give their testimonies, finding themselves confronted with their past. Secrets, betrayals, grudges, but also dreams and hopes shed light on their connection to the victim. Each person harbours, for one reason or another, the desire to take revenge on her. So, who really killed Zakia? And what if, behind this woman’s murder, lie secrets so unbearable they could tear an entire community apart?

The much-anticipated debut novel from writer and publishing world figure, Stu Hennigan.

In the derelict shell of what was once his family home, a dying man surveys the wreckage of his former life and drinks himself senseless, haunted by the chain of events that led him there. Dark, complex and visceral, Keshed is an unflinching character study exploring class, belonging, fatherhood and conflicting ideals of modern masculinity. At heart it’s the story of a relationship struggling to cope with the impossible pressures of raising a child under late-stage capitalism; but it’s also a love letter to the working class North, from the grinding poverty of Thatcher’s 80s to the present day.

This reissue of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Percival Everett and Kincaid’s classic political satire lampoons conservative hysteria for a new generation.

Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of the late South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s desire to pen a history of African Americans — his and his aides’ belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History of the African-American People (Proposed) follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history.

Take Six continues to promote fiction from women writers from across the globe!

Take Six: Six Ukrainian Women Writers presents short stories that take you into cities devastated by Russia’s war on Ukraine and tell you what it is like to flee with almost nothing but a black sweater, or to be pregnant while shells explode in your city. But these authors also lead you into a past where a Cossack roams through the snow in a landscape haunted by witches and into the history of the Russian genocide of Ukraine. What emerges from these tales is hope tested in the most extreme conditions of modern war, the courage to face the worst with an absolute commitment to survival, and the soul of a nation surviving unspeakable atrocities throughout its history.

A powerful story of queerness and religion, as Horace’s struggles manifest in a biblical battle for his soul.

Outsider Classics is Dead Ink’s resurrection ground for the strange, the silenced, and the outcasts. This series exhumes lost literary voices that were ahead of their time to restore them to the cult status they always deserved. A Visitation of Spirits, is the powerful story of Horace Cross, a popular and high-achieving sixteen-year-old boy, who wrestles with the guilt of discovering who he is, a young man attracted to other men and yearning to escape the narrow confines of Tims Creek. Raised on stories of prophets, revelations, and dreams, his internal struggles take shape in his mind as demons and angels battling for his soul, culminating in one night of horrible and tragic transformation. Horace seeks help from his cousin, Reverend James ‘Jimmy’ Greene, but he finds himself ill-prepared to help the boy, plagued by demons of his own. And as Horace spirals out of control, Jimmy must ask himself what it says about him and his community that they cannot reconcile the spirits of the past with those of the future.

High in the Accursed Mountains, in a village ruled by the ancient laws of the Kanun, Bekjia escapes an arranged marriage by becoming a sworn virgin, renouncing her womanhood to live as a man. Her decision sets off a brutal chain of events, destroying her family and separating her from the one she loves the most. Years later, as Bekija — now Matija — tells their story to a visiting journalist, long-buried truths come to light, along with the realisation of all that might have been.