Catalogue Spring 2027
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JUNIPER
30TH MARCH 2027
‘Told with equal helpings of hilarity and wisdom, All Together Now collides one woman's past identities with her present self in a decked-out party bus hurtling straight into the future. The next time someone insists you ‘never change’ this book will make you realise you already have – and it's a good thing’ Bonnie Garmus, multi-million-copy bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry
ALL TOGETHER NOW JULIE BUXBAUM Joyful, tender and devastating in turn, All Together Now is an epic that crosses selves and decades to tell the story of one ordinary, extraordinary life. Every ten years or so, Hazel Stein finds herself face-toface with every version of herself she has ever been, and ever will be. There’s Hazel Stein, aged 8, making paper airplanes out of napkins; 18, with a catastrophic fringe and the insecurities to match; 28, undeniably a knockout; 39, flush with the responsibility of new motherhood; 49, terrifyingly bald (the other Hazels can’t quite look her in the eye); 57, whose ring finger is suddenly, strangely bare; 68, who’s had one too many Botox shots; and 77, with wiry white hair, a stitched-up face and a threadbare T-shirt. Together, they tell the story of one woman’s life: from an unforgettable one-night stand at the turn of the millennium to friendships that span decades and continents, from the fierce, primal instincts of motherhood to moments of seismic, reality-warping grief. Together, they recount how a single life can add up to an unimaginable bounty: what we owe to the people we used to be, and those we will become.
JULIE BUXBAUM is a New York Times bestselling and awardwinning author. She’s written two critically acclaimed novels for adults, The Opposite of Love and After You, which have been translated into twenty-five languages. She is also the author of five young reader novels, which have won numerous young reader awards. Julie is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Law School. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, two children, and a dog named Potato.
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JUNIPER
28TH JANUARY 2027
‘With pathos and swift, transporting prose, Natalie Gregory reveals a version of Thailand rich with counterculture, protest, and the lingering ghosts of those erased from collective memory’ Aube Rey Lescure, Women's Prize shortlisted author of River East, River West
MOTHER, GHOST, MANGO SEED NATALIE GREGORY Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity. A single thread can unravel a web of secrets . . . Lin returns from England to Bangkok to care for her dying mother. In the city, pro-democracy protesters clash with the military government and ambitious new king. And among all this, Lin’s mother dies. Numbed at the wake and feeling like a stranger in her home country, Lin tries to cook her mother’s favourite dish, but her mother’s recipes are all missing, and in their place is an old political leaflet which everyone refuses to translate. Lonely and intrigued, Lin sets off with her baby to the Thai countryside in search of answers. As she discovers herself and her culture, Lin quickly finds that tugging at a single thread can unravel a web of secrets held for decades, driving away loved ones, breaking cultural taboos, and uncovering dreadful truths behind a devastating political past. 4
NATALIE GREGORY had a Thai mother. The accidental disposal of her mother’s recipes after her death inspired the novel’s inciting incident. She has a BA in English and History, an MSc in International Politics and worked as a speechwriter, though her passion has always been fiction. Her story ‘A Bowl of Soup’ was published in Together in the UK’s anthology, Hear Our Stories; it won the Creative Writing NZ flash fiction competition and was shortlisted for Exeter Short Story Prize.
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JUNIPER
25TH FEBRUARY 2027
‘Utterly compelling from start to finish. Original. Heartbreaking. Gripping’ Liane Moriarty on All That's Left Unsaid
A GREAT PLACE TO RAISE A FAMILY TRACEY LIEN A Great Place to Raise a Family is a novel about migration and assimilation, the fragile architecture of family, and the distance between the life we imagine and the one we actually make. When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when tenyear-old Fiona comes home to find the house ransacked. Only one thing is missing: a ceramic treasure chest she made at school. As Fiona searches for answers, the burglary exposes the fault lines running through her family. Tommy clings to respectability with desperate force. Chancey is cornered by her own lies. Older sister Helen will do anything to be seen. And Ah Sim, the sharp-tongued matriarch who helped raise them all, knows what fear can do to a family. What emerges is a portrait of a household – and a nation – built on hope, denial and the longing to belong.
TRACEY LIEN’s debut novel, All That’s Left Unsaid, won the Australian Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction, and the MUD Literary Prize. It was also shortlisted for the Literary Fiction Book of the Year and The Matt Richell Award for New Writers in the ABIA Awards, as well as being a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Born and raised in South Western Sydney, Australia, Tracey now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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JUNIPER
11TH MARCH 2027
‘I am staggered by Wang’s humour, heart, and brilliance’ Lily King, on Joan is Okay
IRIS WEIKE WANG A razor-sharp will-they-won’t-they about art, desire and connection from a PEN/Hemingway Award winner and National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honouree. When Iris and Bowen meet at an artists’ residency, the connection is immediate. Both are married to other people, but their long, riveting debates and stolen moments make Iris, an author struggling with writer’s block, feel newly alive. After they return to their lives in New York City, their spiky repartee continues with impassioned debates about books, reflections on a shared Chinese-American heritage and confessions of mutual attraction. When the ticking time bomb of a possible affair becomes impossible to ignore, they meet up for an epic, day-long date that will decide their future. Elegant, intimate, nuanced and electric, Iris is alive to the powers of language and literature: probing desire, connection and the self with singular style and flair.
WEIKE WANG is the author of 4 novels. She is the recipient of a PEN/Hemingway Award, a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation 5 under 35. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine and has won two O. Henry Prizes. She earned her MFA from Boston University and her other degrees from Harvard. She currently lives in New York City and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Barnard College and Boston University.
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JUNIPER
25TH MARCH 2027
‘[A] moving family drama . . . If you don't fall in love with Mr Sidhu, as I did, then I can't help you!’ BBC News, 12 Books to Read in 2026
MR SIDHU’S POST OFFICE AMMAN BRAR The unforgettable and achingly beautiful novel about family, love, loss, and the power of communities coming together. For years, Mr Sidhu’s post office has been a place of small rituals and quiet mercies: news exchanged, kindnesses remembered, a haven for all. Mr Sidhu is a confidant, caretaker and witness to a community revealing itself in its loyalties and secrets. But Mr Sidhu is caught between the life he has inherited and the one he has scarcely allowed himself to imagine. When his ordered world begins to shift, he is drawn towards a new future and an unexpected love, forcing him to navigate family tensions, shifting identities and the question of who stands beside us when everything changes. And soon, the life Mr Sidhu tended so carefully may no longer be enough . . . Tender, wise and beautifully observed, Mr Sidhu’s Post Office is an unforgettable novel about love, duty and the communities that shape us – and save us.
AMMAN BRAR is a writer and theatre maker with an MA in Creative Writing from UEA. He won the BBC Writersroom 10 Award for his play Punjabi Boy with Tamasha Theatre Co, where he was also Artist in Residence. Amman’s father was a sub-postmaster in the 1980s and 1990s, and Amman worked in the shop after school, witnessing his father's respect in the community. Mr Sidhu’s Post Office, honours his father, the community, and the victims of the Horizon scandal.
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JUNIPER
8TH APRIL 2027
‘Ridiculously good . . .’ Chris Whitaker
‘Original. Urgent. Disturbing. Brilliant’ Shari Lapena
‘Guaranteed to shock and entertain’ The Sunday Times
‘A seriously impressive novel’ Hannah Beckerman
FIVE ILONA BANNISTER Five passengers. Five minutes until the next train . . . five minutes until someone dies. Someone will die here this morning, at this suburban train station. It will happen in the next five minutes when the 7:06 to London Victoria arrives. Take note of their positions. The child, the mother, the businessman, the old woman and the gambler. There is probably one you want to get rid of. You don’t have to admit who. But perhaps you should ask yourself why. The train has stopped. Someone is dead. Was it who you chose? It wasn’t your fault . . . So why, dear reader, do you feel so guilty? Five stories. Five minutes until a life ends. Unfolding in real time, Five doesn't just tell a story; it provokes, unsettles, and lingers. Five offers no easy answers, but rather a nuanced exploration of the human condition in all its messy complexity. 8
ILONA BANNISTER is a New Yorker who lives in the UK with her family. A dual-qualified US lawyer and UK solicitor, she practised immigration law in the UK before eventually writing fiction. Her family’s migration to the US, her experience as an American mother raising children in the UK and legal work also led her to write about otherness, belonging and being outside looking in. Her first book When I Ran Away was longlisted for the 2021 First Novel Prize.
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JUNIPER
22ND APRIL 2027
‘White Lotus with more sincerity and heart’ Los Angeles Times
‘A truly great millennial novel’ New York Times Book Review newsletter
CLUTCH EMILY NEMENS A big-hearted, critically-acclaimed ensemble novel about friendship in the maelstrom of mid-life. As undergrads, Gregg, Reba, Hillary, Bella and Carson formed the rare bond university brochures promise – friendship that lasts. Decades later they live across the country, linked through their ever-active group chat. They've survived COVID and childbirth, but no-one can anticipate what's coming next. In Palm Springs, they reunite. Gregg, a progressive Texas legislator, must decide her political future. Reba is deep in IVF treatments while caring for aging parents. While Hillary's medical career is flourishing, her husband's struggles with addiction derail their home life. Bella faces the biggest case in her career as a litigator while her personal life crumbles around her and Carson is working on a new novel as well as forging a possible relationship with the father she’s never met. Twenty years into their friendship, the stakes are higher than ever. With wit, empathy and heart, Clutch asks how much we can give to friends and family, and what space we can save for ourselves.
EMILY NEMENS’s first novel, The Cactus League, was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. From 2018–2021 she edited The Paris Review, winning the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for Fiction. She grew up in Seattle and earned a bachelor’s from Brown University. As an illustrator, she collaborated with Harvey Pekar and published her work in The New Yorker. Her stories have appeared in Esquire, n+1, The Iowa Review and Review, Hobart, and The Gettysburg Review.
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JUNIPER
3RD JUNE 2027
WHEN EVERYTHING WAS BURNING ALISON BARROW An unforgettable debut about the stories families tell, the silences they keep, and the ways in which they love. In the blazing summer of 1976, when Britain is gripped by drought, fire and a strange, airless heat, the Robinson family are living under pressures of their own. Then, on a Sunday in June, a single terrible moment changes the course of all their lives. What follows is a story of love, secrecy and survival. As the years unfold, a mother and her children, their neighbours and lovers, must live in the aftermath of that day, each carrying their own version of what happened. At the centre is Philip, trying to make sense of a childhood marked by tenderness and fear, of first love discovered in secret, and of memory’s shifting, unreliable truths. Sweeping yet intimate, richly atmospheric and deeply humane, this is a novel about what lies hidden within ordinary lives: about damage and inheritance, grief and desire, and the fragile bonds by which people remain tethered to one another.
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ALISON BARROW was born and raised in Yorkshire in the 1970s. She has spent more than three decades working in UK publishing, helping to shape the careers of many of the country’s most celebrated writers. During lockdown, she began sharing her writing on social media, where many of her words first found an audience. She lives in the foothills of the Chilterns and alongside walking her dog in the woods and managing an overflowing garden, she writes in the cracks between
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JUNIPER
17 TH JUNE 2027
‘A sweeping, deeply moving, and propulsive debut that stunned me into silence and awe . . . Musa is a brilliant writer who pierces a wise truth: that a wound, once witnessed and traced to its origin, has the profound ability to heal and transform’ Fatima Mirza, author of A Place for Us
THE STRANGLING FIG FAUZIA MUSA An extraordinary novel that shows how understanding our past can lead to a hopeful future. Hyderabad, 1946 Ashraf is asleep in her mother’s bed when her father is murdered on the eve of Partition. She might as well have lost her mother that day too, and her fight to connect with her mother will follow her to America, seeping into who she is as a daughter, a lover, a mother, and be felt through the next generation of women. California, 2002
FAUZIA MUSA is a writer based in South London. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Times, Monocle, The Independent, and Riposte. Born in Mumbai and raised between London and California, she writes about religion, culture, migration and motherhood in the modern age. She is currently a PhD candidate in creative nonfiction at King’s College London. The Strangling Fig is her first novel.
Seher is sixteen when she first sees her grandmother’s ghost. Feeling lost and abandoned by her own mother, Seher clings to Ashraf’s ghost, the guiding presence she craves. But as Seher begins to move forward, it becomes clear that Ashraf’s support comes at a cost. Beautifully told and heartbreakingly poignant, The Strangling Fig is a mother-daughter story and a ghost story, exploring how to break free from the wounds of the past.
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