Fiction in Translation

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...

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...

Hiro Arikawa / The Travelling Cat Chronicles

   DISCOVER THE HEARTWARMING STORY OF A JOURNEY AROUND JAPAN WITH A CAT - A MILLION COPY BESTSELLER - Translated by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami. `Bewitching... as...

Iosi Havilio / Open Door (Large Paperback)

When her partner disappears, a young woman drifts towards Open Door, a small town in the Argentinean Pampas named after its psychiatric hospital. She finds herself living with an aging ranch-hand,...

Isabel Allende / City of the Beasts

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Isabel Allende / In the Midst of Winter (Hardback)

 **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover**'In some of the most beautiful...

Isabel Allende / Ines of My soul

The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s.A real...

Isabel Allende / Paula

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Isabel Allende / Portrait in Sepia

 Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance.`Portrait in Sepia' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the...

Isabel Allende / Portrait in Sepia (Hardback)

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious...

Isabel Allende / The Japanese Lover

From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to war,...

Isabel Allende / The Sum of Our Days (Large Paperback)

A brilliant memoir from the celebrated Chilean novelist on friends, family and life in California, her adopted home. Isabel Allende has sold more than 50 million copies of her books worldwide. The...

Isabel Allende / Violeta

 This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred...

Isabel Allende / Zorro (Large Paperback)

 A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know. Born in southern Califorinia late in the 18th century Diego de la Vega is...

J.R.R Tolkien - Der Herr Der Ringe Box set : Die Gefahrten, Die zwei Türme , Die Ruckkehr des Königs - SLIPCASE PB Set

Sehr schöne Sonderedition in aufwändig gestaltetem Schuber. Tolle Drucke und Farbakzente. 3 x pb , 1978 Hobbit Press - Klett-Cott  Text entirely in German - Der Komplette Text ist auf...

Jakub Trpiš / The Choice (Large Paperback)

‘’I dream of a world in flames: nuclear bombs falling on cities, consuming them like cancer; surviving in underground shelters, where we slowly turn into animals. These dreams are so...

Javier Cercas / The Anatomy of a Moment

In February 1981, just as Spain was set to leave Franco's dictatorship and embark upon a new era of democracy, Lieutenant Colonel Tejero and his band of civil guards stormed the parliament and opened...

Javier Cercas / Prey For the Shadow (Large Paperback)

The mayor of Barcelona is being blackmailed. A sex tape from her student days - one she never knew existed. The price: 300,000 euros and her immediate resignation. A political chameleon who swept to...

Javier Cercas / The Impostor (Large Paperback)

 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 A TRUE STORY THAT IS PACKED WITH FICTION - FICTION CREATED BY ITS MAIN CHARACTER, ENRIC MARCOBut who is Enric Marco? A veteran of the Spanish...

Jean-Christophe Grangé / Stone Council (Hardback)

As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last...

Jean-Paul Sartre - The Age of Reason - HB - US Modern Library Edition 1947

Hardcover, published by Modern Library USA, 1947. Translated by Eric Sutton from the original French, and published by Gallimard in 1945 as L'Age de Raison;  Tanning to pages, excellent period...

Jonas Jonasson / The Prophet and the Idiot

The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared Sweden, late summer of 2011...

Jordi Llobregat / The Secret of Vesalius (Hardback)

A gripping new Frankenstein set in 19th century Barcelona - a historical thriller sold in 18 countriesFrankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of...

José Cardoso Pires / Ballad of Dogs' Beach

3rd April 1960 - An unidentified body is found on a lonely beach (male, height 1.72 m., well-nourished, age about 50). Shreds of clothing not far away torn by dogs (no bruising, bullet hole in...

Juan Gómez-Jurado / God's Spy (Large Paperback)

An instant bestseller in Spain, with rights sold in twenty-eight countries and counting, God’s Spy is a spectacular contemporary thriller set in the Vatican, where, in the aftermath of Pope...

Karine Tuil / The Age of Reinvention (Large Paperback)

On his eighteenth birthday, Samuel Baron finds out he is not who he thought he was. He is shocked to find that the people who raised him are not his real parents and that his real name is a variation...

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...

Kikuko Tsumura / There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

A woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking.She is sent to an office building where she is tasked with watching...

Konstantin Simonov - Victims and Heroes - HB 1963

Victims and Heroes is a 1963novel, and the first part of a trilogy titled The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. It depicts the experiences of Soviet citizens during World War II, focusing on...

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...

Leila Slimani / Lullaby (Large Paperback)

 The baby is dead. It only took a few seconds.When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect caretaker for their...

Marcel Proust / In Search of Lost Time: A New Translation (6 Hardback Book Box Set)

Marcel Proust / In Search of Lost Time: A New Translation (6 Hardback Book Box Set) London, Allen Lane this translation originally 2002    The first new translation into English since Scott...

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...

Marcello Fois / Bloodlines

When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when,...

Marcello Fois / The Time in Between

Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia - 'a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean' - in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old document...

Marlene van Niekerk / Triomf (Hardback)

 The story of four inhabitants of 127 Martha Street in the poor white suburb of Triomf in South Africa. Living on the ruins of Sophiatown, the freehold township razed to the ground as a black...

Massimo Carlotto / The Goodbye Kiss (Large Paperback)

An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability,...

Max Frisch / I'm Not Stiller (Large Paperback)

The unabridged version of a haunting story of a man in prison. His wife, brother, and mistress recognize him and call him by his name, Anatol Ludwig Stiller. But he rejects them, repeatedly insisting...

Maylis Besserie / Francis Bacon's Nanny(Large Paperback)

At the very centre of the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest artists was the most unexpected of life-long influences. The aptly named Jessie Lightfoot shielded the young Francis Bacon...

Michael Kumpfmüller / The Glory of Life (Large Paperback)

In July 1923, Franz Kafka is convalescing by the Baltic Sea when he meets Dora Diamant and falls in love. Set over the last year of Kafka's life, the tale of Franz and Dora's fragile time together in...

Muriel Barbery / The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Large Paperback)

 The phenomenal New York Times bestseller that "explores the upstairs-downstairs goings-on of a posh Parisian apartment building" (Publishers Weekly). In an elegant hôtel particulier in...

Niccolo Ammaniti / I'm Not Scared

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Niccolo Ammaniti / Steal You Away (Large Paperback)

 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...

Niccolo Ammaniti / The Crossroads (Large Paperback)

 Cristiano is sixteen. Home life is far from perfect, and when his drink-sozzled father and two reprobate friends come up with a plan to rob a bank, Cristiano sees the chance of a better life...

Olivier Norek / The Lost and the Damned (Hardback)

A suspenseful new police procedural from a former French police officer and one of the original writers on the hit series SpiralA corpse that wakes up on the mortuary slab.A case of spontaneous human...

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...

Otfried Preußler / The Little Ghost (Large Paperback)

A little ghost who always wanted to see the town by daylight creates chaos when he does, and finds himself unable to be a night ghost again. Translated from the original German Das kleine...

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...

Paul Verhaeghen / Omega Minor (Large Paperback)

Berlin, Spring of 1995. While a group of neo-Nazis are preparing an anniversary  of disastrous proportions, an old physics professor returns to Potsdam to atone for his sins, an Italian postdoc...

Paulo Scott / Phenotypes ( Translated by Daniel Hahn)

Federico and Lorenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico – distant, angry, analytical – has light...

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez / The Insatiable Spiderman

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's bestselling novel, Dirty Havana Trilogy, was hugely acclaimed for its honest depiction of a Cuban capital characterized by sleaze, sex, poverty and hedonism. In The...