Fiction in Translation

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 / One Hundred Years of Solitude

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Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa / The Leopard

In the spring of 1860, Fabrizio, the charismatic Prince of Salina, still rules over thousands of acres and hundreds of people, including his own numerous family, in mingled splendour and squalor.Then...

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...

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...

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 / 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 / In the Midst of Winter

 'In some of the most beautiful passages in the novel, Allende explores the gentle but redemptive depths of mature love and the paths it can take . . . Allende has an unflashy wisdom to offer, 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 House Of The Spirits

Spanning four generations, Isabel Allende's magnificent family saga is populated by a memorable, often eccentric cast of characters. Together, men and women, spirits, the forces of nature, and of...

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 / 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...

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 / 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...

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...

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...

Mario Vargas Llosa / The Bad Girl (Large Paperback)

Edith Grossman (Translator) Ricardo Somocurcio is in love with a bad girl. He loves her as a teenager known as Lily in LIma in 1950, when she arrives one summer out of the blue, claiming to be...

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,...

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...

Maurizio de Giovanni / Everyone in Their Place (Large Paperback)

Antony Shugaar (Translator) Commissario Ricciardi - Book 3 Book three in the Commissario Ricciardi series. Naples 1931. Together with his indefatigable partner, Brigadier Maione, Ricciardi, a...

Maurizio de Giovanni / The Day of the Dead - Commissario Ricciardi Book 4 (Large Paperback)

  Antony Shugaar (Translator) In this fourth installment of the internationally successful Commissario Ricciardi series, the Commissario is investigating the death of Matteo, one of the...

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

 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 / 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...