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 the...

Abdelkader Benali / Wedding by the Sea (Hardback)

Twenty-year-old Dutch-Moroccan, Lamarat M

Alessandro Baricco / City

A Number One bestseller on publication in Italy, CITY is a dazzlingly inventive novel from the prize-winning author of SILK. In Baricco's words: "CITY is an important title for me, because it...

Alessandro baricco / Silk

France, 1861. When an epidemic threatens to wipe out the silk trade in France, Herve Joncour (a young silkworm breeder) has to travel overland to distant Japan, out of bounds to foreigners, to...

Alex Beer / The Second Rider (Large Paperback)

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Alexandre Jardin / FanFan (Large Paperback)

fanfan is a highly original novel addressing the eternal problem of eternal love.Only nineteen, Alexandre Crusoe is determined to live in monogamous marital bliss. The example of his parents, relics...

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 té dues vides paral·leles. Un dia és professora...

Alice Zeniter / The Art of Losing

Naïma has always known that her family came from Algeria – but up until now, that meant very little to her. Born and raised in France, her knowledge of that foreign country is limited to what she’s...

Alicia Kopf / Brother in Ice

 This hybrid novel—part research notes, part fictionalised diary, and part travelogue—uses the stories of polar exploration to make sense of the protagonist’s own concerns as she comes of age as an...

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&rdqu

Antonio Skarmeta / 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...

Arnost Lustig / Lovely Green Eyes

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersová has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of...

Bernhard Schlink / Flights of Love (Hardback)

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Angel's Game (Hardback)

   In the turbulent and mysterious Barcelona of the 1920s, David Martín, a young novelist obsessed with a forbidden love, receives an offer from an enigmatic publisher to write a book like no other...

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 Labyrinth of the Spirits (Large Paperback)

 The long-awaited new novel from the author of the global bestseller and modern classic, The Shadow of the Wind.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Midnight Palace

 From the author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, the haunting story of a secret society and a labyrinthine railway station with a dark past.1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prince Of Mist

1943. As war sweeps across Europe, Max Carver's father moves his family away from the city, to an old wooden house on the coast. But as soon as they arrive, strange things begin to happen: Max...

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 and Bea...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Shadow of the Wind

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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 Martin 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)

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Cecilia Ahern - Sommersprossen - (GERMAN) - PB

PAPERBACK, translation into German of Freckles , published by Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt , 2022.  Es heißt, du bist eine Mischung aus den fünf Menschen, mit denen du die meiste Zeit verbringst. Wer...

Choderlos De Laclos / Dangerous Liaisons

 Published in 1782, just years before the French Revolution, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is a disturbing and ultimately damning portrayal of a decadent society. At its centre are two aristocrats, former...

D.A. Mishani / Three (Large Paperback)

An abandoned woman searching for love, a deeply religious immigrant caretaker, a disillusioned researcher trapped in her marriage. Three women whose lives seem as far apart as possible, united by a...

Daniel Kehlmann / You Should Have Left (Hardback)

On retreat in the wintry Alps with his family, a writer is optimistic about completing the sequel to his breakthrough film. Nothing to disturb him except the wind whispering around their glassy house...

Daniel Pennac / Write to Kill (Large Paperback)

Malaussène #3 Benjamin Malaussène is a downtrodden publisher at Vendetta Press. Treated as a scapegoat by Queen Zabo, doyenne of publishing, he finally resigns, only for Zabo to offer him a starring...

David Lagercrantz / Fall of Man in Wilmslow (Large Paperback)

  Leonard Corell, a detective sergeant in the sleepy town of Wilmslow, is disillusioned with his lot. Trapped between professional stagnation and personal repression, he can't even work up the...

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 la mia...

Elena Ferrante / The Lying Life of Adults (Large Paperback)

 AN INCENDIARY PORTRAIT OF THE VOLCANIC CURRENTS OF SEX AND BETRAYAL."-Mail on SundayTHE INTERNATIONAL No. 1 BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF MY BRILLIANT FRIENDA BBC2 Between The Covers Book Club...

Elena Ferrante / Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay (Large Paperback)

 Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by "one of the great novelists of our time" (The New York Times).In the third book in the New York Times-bestselling...

Elke Schmitter / Mrs Sartoris (Large Paperback)

An international sensation, Elke Schmitter's explosive debut novel presents a modern-day twist on Madame Bovary.Margarethe can remember very clearly the last time she was happy: she was eighteen,...

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 string –...

Enrique Vila-Matas / Dublinesque (Large Paperback)

   In Dublinesque, superbly translated by Rosalind Harvel and Anne McLean, Samuel Riba, a 60-year-old Catalan alcoholic publisher and bibliophile, heeding the apocalyptic voices that trumpet the...

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 en 1929 mais paru pour la 1ère...

Flann O'Brien - Treciasis Policininkas ( Third Policeman) - Lithuanian Edition

Lithuanian Translation of The Third Policeman, 2002, hardcover. Age tanning to the page block.  Tereciasis Policininkas - is anglu kalbos verte Antanas Danielius

Flavia Bujor / The Prophecy of the Gems (Hardback)

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Francisco Sionil Jose / 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 moral order...

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 artistic and...

Fred Vargas / An Uncertain Place

 Three-times winner of the CWA International Dagger for Crime Fiction Commissaire Adamsberg has left Paris for a police conference in London, accompanied by anglophile Commandant Danglard and...

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 (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...

Fred Vargas / The Three Evangelists (Large Paperback)

The opera singer Sophia Siméonidis wakes up one morning to discover that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours:...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez / 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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Georges Perec / A Void

  Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to his location and, insidiously, a ghost, from Vowl's past starts to...

Georgi Gospodinov / Time Shelter

In Time Shelter, an enigmatic flâneur named Gaustine opens a ‘clinic for the past’ that offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail,...

Irene Nemirovsky / The Misunderstanding (Hardback)

 The Misunderstanding is Irène Némirovsky's first novel, written when she was just twenty-one and published in a literary journal two years later. An intense story of self-destructive and blighted...

Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the...

Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback)

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Isabel Allende / City of the Beasts