Laila Lalami

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 ‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN‘So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat’ THE TIMES‘Extraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMAN Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration...

Winner of the American Book Award Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2015 A Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 'An absorbing story' - SALMAN RUSHDIE 'Rich, vivid and gripping' - GUARDIAN 'Feels at once historical and contemporary' - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW In 1527, hundreds of settlers arrived on the coast of modern-day Florida and claimed...

Finalist for the National Book Award 2019 An Observer, Literary Review and Time Book of the Year'One of the most affecting novels I have read. Subtle, wise and full of humanity' The TimesLate one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking across a darkened intersection when he is killed by a speeding car. The repercussions of...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 The Dream Hotel follows Sara, who is at the airport, travelling home from a work conference. Out of nowhere, she is pulled aside by agents from the Risk Assessment Administration. Their algorithm has determined that she’s an immediate threat to her husband, and...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK MARCH 2025 ‘A gripping, Kafkaesque foray into an all-too-plausible future’ JENNIFER EGAN‘So cleverly conceived, so relevant, that everyone should read it and sweat’ THE TIMES‘Extraordinary’ RUMAAN ALAM‘Absolutely unputdownable’ SANDRA NEWMAN Sara is returning home from a conference abroad when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration...