Fiction in Translation

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

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,...

Gerbrand Bakker / The Twin (Large Paperback)

When his twin brother is killed in a car accident, Helmer is obliged to give up university to take over his brother’s role on the small family farm, resigning himself to spending the rest...

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...

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 / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and...

Isabel Allende / City of the Beasts

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Isabel Allende / City of the Beasts (Hardback)

  An ecological romance with a pulsing heart, equal parts Rider Haggard and Chico Buarque -- one of the world's greatest and most beloved storytellers broadens her style and reach with a...

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 / 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 Stories of Eva Luna

  Isabel Allende delves deep into the world she created in her previous book "Eva Luna" to bring her readers delightful tales of the strange joys and sadnesses of South America. Weaving...

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 / Violeta (Large Paperback)

 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 / Fortress of Evil (Large Paperback)

  Javier Cercas - Anne McLean (Translator)     Years have passed since Melchor Marín took revenge for his mother's murder and at last found peace.He...

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 / Even the Darkest Night (Large Paperback)

  Even the Darkest Night: A Terra Alta Investigation (Book 1)  Javier Cercas     The first book in the acclaimed Barcelona detective Melchor Marín is sent to...

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

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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...

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 longer used. Because who amongst us can...

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...

Kaoru Takamura / Lady Joker, Volume Two (Large Paperback)

This second half of Lady Joker, by Kaoru Takamura, the Grand Dame of Japanese crime fiction, concludes the breathtaking saga introduced in Volume One.Inspired by the real-life Glico-Morinaga...

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...

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...

Lars Mytting / 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...

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...

Marcellus Emants / A Posthumous Confession (Large Paperback)

J.M. Coetzee (Translator) Termeer, the narrator of A Posthumous Confession, is a twisted man and a troubled one. The emotionally stunted son of a cold, forbidding, and hypocritical...