An account of the imprisonment of Kang Chol-Hwan and his family in the Yodok concentration camp in North Korea

There are Dark Forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular) and so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them.

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno.

Elllen Van Neerven is unsparing in the interrogation of colonial impulse, and fiercely loyal to telling the stories that make us who we are.

The debut of an unforgettable new voice in Australian fiction, Hold Your Fire exposes the battles we wage beneath the surface.

Glasgow, 2025. Dr Amanda Maclean is called to treat a young man with a mild fever. Within three hours he dies. The mysterious illness sweeps through the hospital with deadly speed. This is how it begins.

This is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside.

The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish-but also because they were female.

A passionate account of the toxic culture of bullying and overwork that junior doctors can experience in the workplace as part of their training.

Lauren Pailing is a teenager in the eighties, becomes a Londoner in the nineties. And each time she dies, new lives begin for the people who loved her – while Lauren enters a brand new life, too.

Ford demolishes the age-old assumption that superiority and aggression are natural realms for boys, and demonstrates how toxic masculinity creates a disturbingly limited and potentially dangerous idea of what it is to be a man.

“Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.”

Tackles diversity, racism and cultural appropriation in the publishing industry.

Dark academia about dangerous and ambitious students… very Donna Tarttish.

Everything about this book has already been said.