Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is sent to report on the undersea fiber‑optic cables that carry the world’s information. His investigation brings him to the west coast of Africa and aboard a cable‑repair ship led by John Conway, a skilled engineer and freediver, intersecting with Zanele, a South African actress. As they set out to repair deep breaks, the novel quietly examines the hidden labor behind global infrastructure and the ways people try to mend personal and collective ruptures.

The Hollow Half is a memoir in which Sarah Aziza’s hospitalization for an eating disorder becomes the catalyst for tracing three generations of her Palestinian family—from Gaza to the Midwest and New York. Through memories, dreams, and recovered stories she explores how personal trauma and anorexia intersect with generational displacement, silence, and resilience. The book weaves language and family history as she resists assimilation and patriarchy and seeks a form of healing grounded in survival and love.

Orphan Maggie Fishbone is sent to the Midwatch Institute for Orphans, Runaways, and Wayward Girls and discovers it’s a school where girls learn to solve mysteries and protect the city. As she makes friends and trains in everything from fencing to secret skills, Maggie’s first assignment—searching for a missing woman—pulls her into the city’s hidden secrets in this whimsical, illustrated adventure.

Mary Roach investigates the science and people behind replacing and repairing human body parts — from prosthetics and donor organs to stem-cell–grown tissues and 3D‑printed parts. Through on‑site reporting and interviews with researchers, surgeons, and patients, she explores the technical challenges and ethical questions of reconstructing the human body in an engaging, often humorous way.

Frances Wilson’s Electric Spark is a vivid, concise investigation of Muriel Spark’s formative years and the mysteries behind her fiction. Tracing episodes of divorce, poverty, espionage, scandal and a dramatic religious conversion in the 1940s–50s, Wilson shows how these experiences were transformed into the wry, puzzle-like novels for which Spark is known.

After a storm, Cora and her nine-year-old daughter go to register the birth of her son. When Cora makes a last-minute choice about the baby’s name instead of following her husband’s wish, three alternate versions of their lives unfold over thirty-five years. The novel follows these parallel possibilities to explore family bonds, domestic abuse, and a woman’s search for autonomy and healing.

A compact illustrated biography that follows the pioneering photographer whose experiments with sequential photography captured animal and human motion, laid groundwork for motion pictures, and mixed scientific curiosity with personal turmoil—covering his photographic expeditions, inventive motion studies, and the scandal and violence that shadowed his private life while showing how his obsession with movement transformed vision and technology in the late 19th century.

During World War I, five soldiers sent into No Man’s Land discover a fallen angel that might alter the course of the conflict. Confronted with fear, desire, and mistrust, they must decide whether to cooperate or give in to their impulses, setting off intense moral and psychological tensions. The story blends battlefield realism with a supernatural encounter as the men struggle to survive and confront what the angel represents.

During a global pandemic, a young woman struggles to hold her family together after a devastating loss while contending with a mysterious illness that scrambles her thoughts and memories. As she drifts from her previous life—disoriented, unable to recognize friends, and haunted by repeating sounds and sensations—she tries to remake her identity and find ways to keep living amid grief and confusion.

In this novel, two estranged siblings come together after their mother's death to uncover a hidden family history that spans continents and generations. As they listen to a voice recording left by their mother, they learn about her tumultuous past, including a mysterious murder, a secret marriage, and a cherished recipe for black cake that symbolizes their cultural heritage. Through this journey, they confront their own personal struggles and rediscover the bonds that connect them, ultimately finding a path to reconciliation and understanding.

A collaborative, metafictional novel that layers books-within-books, documents and multilingual passages to trace a project of literary creation and identity. Blending contemporary politics, cultural history and unconventional narrative techniques, it explores the process of becoming a writer and the risks and obsessions that drive artistic ambition.

A darkly comic novel about a forty-something journalist who, after the collapse of print, takes a job at a bookstore in a rapidly gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhood. Through his caustic attempts to write and the humiliations of service work, the book skewers gentrification, aging, professional envy, and the uneasy place of literature in the digital era.

Ben, a drifting fact-checker at a New York gossip magazine, spends his days noticing small, ordinary wonders until an irreverent young woman arrives and nudges him to reexamine art, ambition, and intimacy. The novel quietly follows his emotional awakening and the messy, unexpected ways relationships reshape everyday life.

A theoretical meditation that reconceives images not as static representations but as living, circulating agents embedded in networks of perception, technology and power; it argues for an “ecology” that tracks how images attract and redistribute attention, interact with viewers and other images, mutate through technical and institutional media, and produce collective effects and political consequences, drawing on examples from art, cinema, advertising and archives to show how attending to an image’s agency and environment reshapes our understanding of aesthetics, mediation and public life.

In this insightful exploration of the evolving landscape of currency, the author delves into the transformative power of digital money and its impact on society. The narrative examines how new forms of currency, from cryptocurrencies to mobile payment systems, are reshaping traditional financial systems and influencing cultural norms. Through a blend of historical context and contemporary analysis, the book highlights the opportunities and challenges presented by these innovations, offering a comprehensive understanding of the future of money in a rapidly changing world.

An aging A-list actor suddenly gives away his blockbuster earnings and begins a relationship with a much younger model, while his longtime non-famous friend—often his lover—reflects on their two-decade bond. Told through alternating perspectives that include an aspiring filmmaker writing about them, the novel examines luck, fame, money and the shifting landscape of contemporary Hollywood without revealing key plot twists.

Little Lazarus follows teenagers Francois and Eleanor, restless outsiders in the small Southern town of Harmony, whose lives are forever changed one drunken night. Their parallel stories are woven together with the long, traveling perspective of two clairvoyant tortoises—Lazarus and Little Lazarus—whose centuries-spanning journeys and varied caretakers (from a billionaire to generations of men and even a dog named Pony) bear witness to human love, loss, and longing. The novel is a lyrical, character-driven exploration of connection and memory.

Angela, a former high-school state champion runner and college dropout, works as a receptionist at an abortion clinic until a new “heartbeat law” criminalizes most abortions and her boss is arrested. In response she stages a solitary hunger strike in the boarded-up clinic, drawing in an ex, former patients, and opponents—while the book examines bodily autonomy, community responsibility, and the personal costs of political change.

Over the course of a single day, an unnamed man nearing the end of his career and marriage visits a country house with a young realtor. The house feels saturated with the memory of its former owner, Helen, whose stories present him with a tempting alternative way of life. As the day unfolds, he confronts who he is and what he might be willing to give up in pursuit of happiness.

A disaffected young woman quits her job as a bookseller and sets out to become a full‑time narrator, turning daily life—apartments, studios, parties, the post office—into material for fiction. She chronicles the experiment of living inside language, testing the fantasy of uninterrupted interiority and the ways everyday reality intrudes. The novel follows her detours, psychic shifts, and surprising encounters as she explores what it means to enter and inhabit fiction.

Sixty-three-year-old PJ Halliday, a lottery winner coping with loss and health problems, decides to drive from Massachusetts to Arizona to win back his high school sweetheart. When he unexpectedly becomes guardian to his estranged brother’s grandchildren, he sets out on a cross-country road trip with his adrift adult daughter and a therapy cat named Pancakes who seems to predict death. The journey forces PJ to confront his past, try parenting again, and search for a second chance at love.

In the 19th-century Northwest, grieving alchemist Gentle Montgomery and his teenage nephew Kitt set out to track a legendary giant salamander whose blood might power an alchemical formula to revive Gentle’s dead friend. Their journey through a haunted wilderness brings surreal visions and draws the attention of a violent hunter, a corrupt judge, and a doomsday cult, forcing them to confront the creature, the strange dreams it provokes, and the fragile bonds between them. The story blends supernatural horror, alchemy, and a meditation on grief and human connection.