Fiction in Translation

Isabel Allende / Violeta

 This sweeping novel from the 

Isabel Allende / Violeta (Large Paperback)

 This sweeping novel from the 

Isabel Allende / Zorro

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Javier Cercas / Fortress of Evil (Large Paperback)

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Johan Theorin / The Asylum (Large Paperback)

Marlaine Delargy (Translator) 'We don't talk about sick or healthy people at St Patricia's. Words such as hysteric, lunatic and psychopath... They are no l

Jozef Wittlin / The Salt of the Earth (Hardback)

'Only the villages are asleep, the eternal reservoir of all kinds of soldiery, the inexhaustible source of physical strength' At the beginning of the twentieth century the villagers of the Carpathian...

Katja Oskamp - Marzahn, Mon Amour ( Impac Prize Winner 2022)

A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR’s largest prefabricated housing estate,...

Lars Mytting / The Sixteen Trees of The Somme

 Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has...

Lars Saabye Christensen / The Half Brother (Large Paperback)

This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.Traces four generations of a...

Leila Slimani / Lullaby

 WINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2019A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYThe baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a brilliant...

Lina Wolff / The Polyglot Lovers

 `Do you have to stare like that?' I asked. `Think about the actors in porn. They've got no problem showing themselves off.' `Think about when I broke your nose,' I replied. Ellinor is thirty-six...

Louis Ferrante / Tough Guy : A Memoir by Louis Ferrante

 Louis Ferrante was a young rogue who made his reputation on the streets of New York and later hooked up with the infamous John Gotti Jr and the Gambino crime family. He pulled off some of the most...

Marcello Craveri - The Life of Jesus - HB ( Translation by Charles Markmann) 1967

Places what is known of the life and bioography of Jesus in his contemporary setting and analyzes his life and works according to the interpretation of mystics, rationalists, and mythologists...

Mauriel Barbery / The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building, home to members of the great and the good. Over the years she has maintained her carefully constructed persona as someone reliable but...

Mons Kallentoft / The Fifth Season

 It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector...

Naoise Dolan - Opwindende Tijden ( Exciting Times) - Netherlands Edition - PB

Over liefde, geld en het gevoelsleven van drie cynische millennials in Hongkong. Geeft Ava haar gemoedelijke leventje met bankier Julian op voor advocate Edith?‘Opwindende tijden’ van Naoise Dolan...

Niccolo Ammaniti / I'm Not Scared

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Niccolo Ammaniti / Steal You Away

 Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced into...

Niklas Natt och Dag / The Wolf and the Watchman (Large Paperback)

It is 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III of Sweden, paranoia and whispered conspiracies are Stockholm’s daily bread...

Orhan Pamuk / Nights of Plague (Large Paperback)

Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novel is historical fiction set in 1901 during the third plague pandemic. The novel also includes his drawings and hand-drawn maps, being his attempt...

Orhan Pamuk / Strangeness In My Mind

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Patrick Suskind / Perfume

The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something...

Per Petterson / Out Stealing Horses (Large Paperback)

Anne Born (Translator) We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spen

Peter Hoeg / Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a...

Pierre Lemaitre / Alex

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost -...

Pierre Lemaitre / Irene

   THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOKFor Commandant Camille Verhoeven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father.HE'S ALWAYS ONE CHAPTER AHEADBut his blissful existence is...

Pierre Lemaitre / Irene (Hardback)

  For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented savagery...

Pierre Lemaitre / The Wide World (Large Paperback)

Heralding the first volume of THE GLORIOUS YEARS  series THE WIDE WORLD is an epic novel of family fortunes, twisted secrets, and love, from a winner of the Prix Goncourt, and three times winner of...

Pierre Lemaitre / Three Days and a Life

 LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018Antoine is twelve years old. His parents are divorced and he lives with his mother in Beauval, a small, backwater town surrounded by forests, where...

Pol Koutsakis / Athenian Blues

The first in the Stratos Gazis mystery series and the first time this Greek novelist is available in English.Stratos hates being called a hitman. A conscientious fixer is what he is. He fixes...

Putu Wijaya / Telegram (Large Paperback)

Stephen J. Epstein (Translator) Putu Wijaya’s debut novel, Telegram , was a literary trendsetter for its synthesis of reality and fantasy. Unapologetically disorienting, the text offers a compelling...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e work...

Rolando Ernesto Tellez / Dario's Popular Poems (Large Paperback)

This book contains a compilation of poems written by the most famous Nicaraguan poet, Rubén Darío (1867-1916). He is the founder of a literary movement, "modernismo." Rolando Ernesto Tellez tries to...

Sandro Veronesi / The Hummingbird (Hardback)

Marco Carrera is 'the hummingbird,' a man with the almost supernatural ability to stay still as the world around him continues to change.As he navigates the challenges of life - confronting the death...

Sarah Cohen-Scali / Max

Nazi Germany. 1936.In the Lebensborn program, carefully selected German women are recruited by the Nazis to give birth to new members of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, literally...

Shusaku Endo / Silence

 Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield. With an introduction by Martin Scorsese'One of the finest historical novels written by...

Sosuke Natsukawa / The Cat Who Saved Books

Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful books. Rintaro Natsuki loved this space that his...

Stefan Zweig - Le Brésil, Terre d'Avenir - PB

En 1940, fuyant le désastre de l’Europe, l’auteur du Joueur d’échecs s’installe au Brésil, découvert quelques années plus tôt. Très vite, ce pays va le fasciner. Par sa beauté et son immensité,...

Stefan Zweig / The Post Office Girl

    It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American...

Sun-mi Hwang / The Dog Who Dared to Dream

  This is the story of a dog named Scraggly. Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's house. Scraggly has dreams...

Suzanne Collins - Vlammen ( De Hongerspelen 2 ) ( Nederland Edition) - PB

Katniss Everdeen heeft meer geluk gehad dan ze ooit had durven dromen. Samen met Peeta Mellark heeft ze de roemruchte Hongerspelen gewonnen, ook al schrijven de regels voor dat er maar één winnaar...

Timur Vermes / Look Who's Back

 The smash-hit satirical bestseller, more than 3 million copies sold worldwideFilm a box-office hit in Germany, now available on NETFLIXA two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring...

Timur Vermes / Look Who's Back (Hardback)

 The smash-hit satirical bestseller, more than 3 million copies sold worldwideFilm a box-office hit in Germany, now available on NETFLIXA two-part BBC Radio 4 Dramatisation directed by and starring...

Torgny Lindgren / In Praise of Truth (Hardback)

In Praise of Truth is about fraud, forgery and lies. The centre stage of the story is taken up by a singer who has, between the twelfth and fifteenth year of her life, become the darling of TV...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz / The Passenger

 BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is Kristallnacht,...

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Large Paperback)

   An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious...

Yoko Ogawa / The Housekeeper + The Professor

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a...

You-jeong Jeong / The Good Son

 'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowYOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOODTHERE'S A BODY DOWNSTAIRSYOUR MOTHER'S BODYYOU DIDN'T...