Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story, Peter Bagge

Following his critically-acclaimed biography of Zora Neale Hurston, Peter Bagge is back with Credo, a graphic account of Rose Wilder Lane’s life. As a thoughtful and thorough biographer, Bagge excels at illustrating what a true trailblazer Lane was politically and as a writer: she founded the American libertarian movement and helped bring her mother's Little House on the Prairie series to its status as a classic. Drawn in vivid colour, Bagge illustrates a life full of spunk and bite.

Normal People, Sally Rooney

Much lauded in Europe as the novel of the generation, Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a book you will start, inhale with delight, and feel totally nourished from afterwards. It is about the tenuous relationships that can be held with the people closest to us - full of shame, devotion, warmth, and the inability to communicate clearly.

Optic Nerve, Maria Gainza

This English debut from Maria Gainza, a major Argentine author, recounts a woman’s obsession with art. The story merges odd moments of art history with the narrator’s reflective yet unglamourous life in Buenos Aires. It is part Ways of Seeing, part How Should a Person Be?, and part fantastical Calvino.

The House of the Pain of Others, Julián Herbert, Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

In a rigorous and passionate attempt to excavate a painful piece of North American history, Mexican writer Julián Herbert writes about the 1911 massacre during the Mexican Revolution. Some three hundred Chinese immigrants in the newly founded city of Torreón were violently murdered. Retelling the events through a mix of “journalism and literature, objectivity and subjectivity,” Herbert works to dig out the deeply planted roots of anti-Chinese prejudice and racism in Mexico.

Native Country of the Heart, Cherríe Moraga

A fervent feminist, queer, and indigenous activist, Cherríe Moraga tells her own story through her mother’s rejection of a traditional female life. Julia Alvarez’ endorsement sums up the book beautifully and poetically: “This defiant, deep, and soulful book about all our mothers, mother cultures, motherlands, and languages is both political and ceremonial.”