Fiction in Translation

A.B. Yehoshua / The Liberated Bride (Large Paperback)

Hillel Halkin(Translator)   Yochanan Rivlin, a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Haifa University, is equally determined to understand the causes of the Algerian civil war of the 1990s and...

Abdelkader Benali / Wedding by the Sea (Hardback)

Twenty-year-old Dutch-Moroccan, Lamarat Minar, is given the unenviable task of tracing his errant uncle and returning him to his waiting bride, Lamarat's sister, Rebekka. After many u-turns,...

Alan Ayling & Duncan Mackintosh - A Collection of Chinese Lyrics - HB ( Dual Language Poetry) 1965

Published by Routledge Kegan Paul, 1965.  A collection of Chinese lyric poems ( tz'u) from the T'ang and Sung dynasties ( circa 750 to 1700 AD) , some with period illustrations also. 

Ali Hazelwood - No és Amor | La Teoria de L'amor ( CATALAN EDITIONS) - 2 x PB

La teoria de l'amor (Ficció romàntica) (Catalan Edition) - PB Enamora't amb les novel·les d'Ali Hazelwood! L'Elsie Hannaway és una física teòrica que...

Amara Lakhous / Divorce Islamic Style (Large Paperback)

Ann Goldstein (Translator) Secret identities, criminal conspiracies, and forbidden love converge in this “whimsical and at times heartbreaking look” at the Muslim communities of Rome...

Antonio Skármeta / Burning Patience ( The Postman/ Il Postino) (Large Paperback)

Burning Patience/The Postman (Il Postino) is a bittersweet tale of first love ignited by the power and passion of Pablo Neruda's timeless poetry.Unlike the other men of his village, Mario balks at...

Arturo Pérez-Reverte / The Siege (Large Paperback)

Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to...

Bernhard Schlink / The Reader (Hardback)

 A schoolboy in post-war Germany, Michael collapses one day in the street and is helped home by a woman in her thirties. Later he visits the woman, at his mother's insistence, taking flowers to...

Bernhard Schlink / The Reader (Large Paperback)

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted...

Carlo Bonini, Giancarlo De Cataldo / Suburra (Large Paperback)

The “razor-sharp political thriller set during the dying days of Berlusconi’s regime” that inspired the Netflix original series (New Statesman).This “fast-moving crime...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Angel's Game

 The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Angel's Game (Large Paperback)

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prince Of Mist (Hardback)

 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prisoner of Heaven

 THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop.It begins just before Christmas in Barcelona in 1957, one year after Daniel...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prisoner of Heaven (Large Paperback)

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Shadow of the Wind (Large Paperback)

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man...

Carmen Martín Gaite / The Farewell Angel (Large Paperback)

Blurring the boundaries between real life and a dream, this richly imagined, meticulously crafted tale by Spanish novelist Gaite (Variable Cloud) borrows from a fairy tale to redeem a young man's...

Carole Martinez / The Castle of Whispers (Hardback)

In 1187, on the day of her wedding, the beautiful 15-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to accept the knight chosen by her father, the lord of the domain of Whispers. She...

Dacia Maraini / The Silent Duchess

In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìa is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she...

Daniel Kehlmann / F - ( A Novel)

Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them.Having achieved nothing in...

Daniele Del Giudice / Take-Off (Large Paperback)

Interweaving observation and dream, Take-Off is a meditation on flying. Its eight chapters carry the reader up to the clouds, into a world governed by different laws, where as we look...

David Peace - Il Maledetto United ( Italy Edition) - PB

Italian language edition of The Damned United - PB . Previous owner's name to title page.    Loro sono la sua squadra. Il suo Leeds. Il suo sporco, maledetto Leeds e lo saranno sempre. Non...

Denis Thériault / The Samurai of the Red Carnation (Hardback)

A thrilling romantic historical adventure, set in medieval Japan, tinged with fantasy and revolving around the art of waka poetry _______'A charming, magical, picaresque journey through medieval...

Elena Ferrante / The Lying Life of Adults

 Giovanna’s pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really...

Elena Ferrante / The Story Of A New Name (Large Paperback)

 A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it" (The Boston Globe).The follow-up to My...

Emmanuelle Pagano / Trysting

 Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of...

Erich Maria Remarque - A l'Ouest rien de nouveau - PB - ( French Edition)

À l'Ouest, rien de nouveau (titre original allemand : Im Westen nichts Neues - ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT) est un roman de Erich Maria Remarque paru officiellement...

Esther Yi / Y/N (Large Paperback)

Chi-Young Kim (Translator) Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a...

Evelio Rosero / Good Offices (Hardback)

Tancredo, a young hunchback, observes and participates in the rites at the Catholic church where he lives under the care of Father Almida. Also in residence are the sexton Celeste Machado, his...

Fabrice Humbert / The Origin of Violence (Hardback)

During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a...

Fariba Hachtroudi / The Man Who Snapped His Fingers (Large Paperback)

Translated by Alison Anderson. Winner of the 2001 French Human Rights Prize, French-Iranian author Fariba Hachtroudi's English-language debut explores themes as old as time: the crushing...

Flavia Bujor / The Prophecy of the Gems (Hardback)

In a magical realm, three teenage girls-Jade, Opal, and Amber-are chosen to fulfil an ancient prophecy. Although they meet as strangers, they must learn to trust one another with their lives as...

Francisco Sionil José / Tree (Large Paperback)

 Tree belongs to Francisco Sionil Jose's largest body of work known as the Rosales novels. Like much of his fiction, it depicts man's continuing and often futile search for justice and a...

Françoise Frenkel / No Place to Lay One's Head

A lost classic... Frenkel's tale and prose is utterly compelling, at once painful and exquisite'Philippe Sands, author of East West StreetIn 1921, Françoise Frenkel - a Jewish woman in...

Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - HB UK 1st Edition - 1957

Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of...

Francoise Sagan - Those Without Shadows - PB - 1964 ( Originally 1957)

Dans un mois, dans un an (Those Without Shadows) was Françoise Sagan's third novel and was published in 1957. It is set in Paris at the time it was written, and centres around a group of...

Francoise Sagan / Aimez-Vous Brahms... (Vintage Paperback)

At thirty-nine years old, Paule is a divorced interior designer. Roger, her lover, who is busy with important business, makes distant visits to her, which she awaits with a certain indolence. She is...

Françoise Sagan / Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile

Sylish, shimmering and amoral, Sagan's tale of adolescence and betrayal on the French Riviera was her masterpiece, published when she was just eighteen. However, this frank and explicit novella was...

Fred Vargas / Seeking Whom He May Devour

 In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's history and a very present...

Fred Vargas / The Chalk Circle Man

Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron alibis;...

Fred Vargas / The Chalk Circle Man (Large Paperback)

  Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is not like other policemen. His methods appear unorthodox in the extreme: he doesn't search for clues; he ignores obvious suspects and arrests people with cast-iron...

Frédéric Beigbeder / £9.99 - A Novel ( Octave Parango - Book 1) (Large Paperback)

Octave seems to have everything going for a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish apartment, girls, and a cocaine habit he can afford. But it soon becomes clear that he also has a serious...

Gabriel García Márquez / News of a Kidnapping (Hardback)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book begins in November 1990 in Bogota, Columbia, when a group of gunmen ambush a car, kill the chauffeur and kidnap its two women passengers. The gunmen were working for...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez / One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez / The General in His Labyrinth

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Gerbrand Bakker / The Detour

 WINNER OF THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE IMPAC DUBLIN PRIZE'A wonderful novel. Wise and generous to a fault of all our human failings and frailties' Lloyd Jones,...

Greg Delanty & Michael Matto ( Editors) - The Word Exchange : Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation - HB - 2011

Hardcover first US edition, Norton 2011. The Word Exchange brings to life a dazzling variety of Anglo-Saxon poetry by an all-star cast of contemporary poets in an authoritative bilingual edition...

Guillaume Musso / The Reunion (Large Paperback)

 An elite prep school frozen in the snow Three friends linked by a tragic secretOne girl taken by the nightThe French Riviera – 25 years agoOne freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed...

Hans Günther Adler / Panorama (Hardback)

Published for the first time in English, Panorama is a superb rediscovered novel of the Holocaust by a neglected modern master. One of a handful of death camp survivors to fictionalize his...

Haruki Murakami / Norwegian Wood

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student...

Hendrik Groen / The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 Years Old (Large Paperback)

 There are many laughs in this book but it's so much more than just a comedy. It's a story about how friendship, selflessness and dignity lie at the heart of the human experience. When I'm an...

Herta Müller / The Appointment (Large Paperback)

Ive been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp. Thus begins a day in the life of a young factory worker in totalitarian Romania. Her crime? Sewing notes into the linings of mens suits bound for Italy. Marry...