An Observer top ten best new novelist for 2024

'A simmering debut, heady with the possibilities of language and the righteousness of female rage'

Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies

'Lush and dreamlike - a sweltering novel, where the sunlight pulses with nightmarish dread'

Colin Walsh, author of Kala

'A modern-day Dionysian cult of women in the woods - haunting and exhilarating'

Jennifer Saint, author of Ariadne

'Emma Cline's The Girls meets Lord of the Flies . . . compelling, cult...

An explosive new thriller from #1 bestselling author Joanne Harris, her first standalone for over a decade

The Secret History meets horror meets Jonathan Safran Foer - with a dash of The Royal Tenenbaums.

An exciting debut novel about a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when they suspect their daughter is a witch.

Intriguing, propulsive and profoundly disturbing, this is a fearless look into the dark heart of family politics from a naturally gifted storyteller' JONATHAN COE

THE ROSENTHALS ARE NOT LIKE OTHER FAMILIES

Hannah and Eric are devout Jews living in North London with t...

'I loved it' Maggie O'Farrell

Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that grapple with the complexities of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.

The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimenta...

I loved this fresh take on the gothic genre. Vivid, haunting, surprising' STACEY HALLS

'A full-blooded gothic mystery with bite, great characterisation and heaps of atmosphere' EMMA STONEX

1852. Margaret Lennox, a young widow, is offered a position as governess at Hartwood Hall. She quickly accepts, hoping this isolated country house will allow her to leave the past behind.

Margaret soon feels there's something odd about Hartwood: strange figures in the dark, tensions between servants and an ...

As he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid's motorbike and takes to the skies, leaving Privet Drive for the last time, Harry Potter knows that Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters are not far behind. The protective charm that has kept Harry safe until now is now broken, but he cannot keep hiding. The Dark Lord is breathing fear into everything Harry loves, and to stop him Harry will have to find and destroy the remaining Horcruxes. The final battle must begin - Harry must stand and face his enemy...

From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.