Miriam Toews

We're Mennonites. As far as I know, we are the most embarrassing sub-sect of people to belong to if you're a teenager. Sixteen-year-old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City's East Village. Instead, she's trapped in East Village, Manitoba: a town with no train station, no bar, and where job prospects...

'Don't miss this one! This amazing, sad, shocking, but touching novel, based on a real-life event, could be right out of The Handmaid's Tale.' - Margaret Atwood Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a...

Meet the Troutmans. Hattie is living in Paris, city of romance, but has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Min, her sister back in Canada, is going through a particularly dark period. And Min's two kids, Logan and Thebes, are not talking and talking way too much, respectively. When Hattie receives a phone call from eleven-year-old Thebes, begging her to...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 'Go Grandma Elvira!' - Margaret Atwood 'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker 'Glorious.' - Sarah Moss You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken this advice too literally. Now she's suspended from school, in the care of her foul-mouthed, hilarious grandmother. Mom...

Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks—waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why—their stories were chalked...

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize 2015 Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize 2015 Sunday Times Top Choice Summer Read Elf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters. Elf is a world-renowned pianist, glamorous, wealthy, happily married: she wants to die. Yoli is divorced, broke, sleeping with the wrong men: she desperately wants to keep her older sister alive. When Elf's...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 ‘The best memoir you will read all year’ — NICK HORNBY ‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’ — GUARDIAN ‘Curious and idiosyncratic and enjoyable’ — ZADIE SMITH ‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ — MARIE CLAIRE A book of the year...

'Sets standards for grandmotherly swearing and outspokenness I can never hope to match. Go Grandma Elvira!' - MARGARET ATWOOD You are a small thing, and you must learn to fight. Swiv has taken her grandmother's advice too literally. Now she's at home, suspended from school. Mum is pregnant and preoccupied – and so Swiv is in the older woman's charge,...

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'The best memoir you will read all year' — Nick Hornby 'A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence' — The Guardian 'A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights' — New York Times 'This is memoir perfection … I adored it' — Cariad Lloyd The internationally bestselling author...