✨ Luminous by Silvia Park
Estranged siblings Jun and Morgan are drawn back together when a robotics case revives questions about their vanished humanoid brother. Uncovering long-buried truths forces them to face the family they left behind.

🧵 5/5

✨ Endling by Maria Reva
In Ukraine, an eccentric scientist breeding rare snails meets two sisters searching for their missing activist mother. When war breaks out, they embark on a darkly comic and unexpected journey of survival and connection.

🧵 4/5

✨ A Thousand Times Before by Asha Thanki
A vivid family tale following three generations of women connected by a remarkable tapestry, moving from Partition-era India to present-day Brooklyn.

🧵 3/5

✨ Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards
Two Indigenous teens on a failing hockey team anchor a community facing buried anger, hard choices, and a journalist’s search for answers. Their converging stories build toward one night that changes everything.

🧵 2/5

✨ Gliff by Ali Smith

Two children come home to find a line of wet red paint around their house. So begins Ali Smith’s urgent novel about two young people and a horse called Gliff, on the run as history takes a turn for the worse.

🧵 4/4

✨ The Wager and the Bear by John Ironmonger

When Tom humiliates politician Monty, it sparks a feud and a deadly wager. Decades later, they are stranded on an iceberg with a starving polar bear in a gripping tale of anger, tragedy, and enduring love amid global crisis.

🧵 3/4

✨ The Names by Florence Knapp

After a great storm, Cora registers her son’s birth. Seven years later, he is Bear, Julian, or Gordon – each name shaping a different life. A moving story about the power of a single decision and three versions of a life.

🧵 2/4

✨ The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha

A son, an attic, a dead mother’s secrets. A hallucinatory novel weaving one woman’s life into Egypt’s modern history, faith and rebellion.

🧵 3/3

✨ Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Four women, four lives, one searching novel about love, loss and ambition, from a travel writer to a housekeeper facing the unimaginable.

🧵 2/3

✨ Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski
Translated from Norwegian by Nichola Smalley

Teenage friends race through drugs, violence, and fast choices with no brakes. One of them dreams of escape, but the streets have other plans. A raw, urgent portrait of youth on the edge.

🧵 4/4

✨ The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translated from Icelandic by Mary Robinette Kowal

Plagued by exhaustion and unexplained injuries, Iðunn suspects something is happening while she sleeps. A chilling novel about being disbelieved, bodily fear and losing control.

🧵 3/4

✨ The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Rämö
Translated from Finnish by Kristian London

Detective Hildur and her partner investigate a murder half-buried by an avalanche. As they pursue a killer through secrets and silence, both are forced to confront their own pasts.

🧵 2/4

✨ Live Fast by Brigitte Giraud
(translated by Cory Stockwell)

In the aftermath of her partner’s death, a woman reconstructs the decisions and accidents that led to disaster. Moving through memory and speculation, the novel asks how a life can turn on small moments.

🧵 4/4

✨ Perspective(s) by Laurent Binet
(translated by Sam Taylor)

A scandalous hidden painting and a city on edge draw the great art historian Giorgio Vasari into an investigation where art, politics, and violence collide.

🧵 3/4

✨ Dear Dickhead by Virginie Despentes
(translated by Frank Wynne)

An explosive, modern-day Dangerous Liaisons set in Paris, where two unlikely correspondents clash and connect across divides of gender, power, and belief.

🧵 2/4

✨ Ordinary Saints by Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin
Living in London with her girlfriend, Jay is forced back to Ireland when her dead brother is proposed for sainthood. A probing look at faith, family stories, and who gets to define a life.

🧵 5/5

✨ Camarade by Theo Dorgan
From Paris, an Irish exile revisits the violent moment that shaped him. The novel moves between memory and politics, a taut exploration of guilt, loyalty, and the histories we carry.

🧵 4/5

✨ The Boy from the Sea by Garrett Carr
A found baby on the Donegal coast unsettles a family and the town around them. Spanning twenty years, it reveals small jealousies, fragile bonds, and the slow weight of growing up in a close community.

🧵 3/5