Foreign Fruit : A Personal History of the Orange

Winner of Scotland's National Book Awards for Debut Non-Fiction

Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Debut Food Book Award

Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2026

A Debutiful Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year

'A bold new voice' — Irish Times

'Visceral . . . I could feel every word' — Angela Hui

'Thoughtful, poetic and clear-sighted' — Cecile Pin

The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind.

So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment — each moment of history, each meaning in time — is pulled apart?

In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she reveals is violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation — and unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds.