Fiction in Translation

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...

Michiko Aoyama / What You Are Looking for is in the library

An inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book._____What are you looking for?So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian, Sayuri Komachi.But she is no...

Mons Kallentoft / The Fifth Season

 It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector...

Naoise Dolan - Opwindende Tijden ( Exciting Times) - Netherlands Edition - PB

Over liefde, geld en het gevoelsleven van drie cynische millennials in Hongkong. Geeft Ava haar gemoedelijke leventje met bankier Julian op voor advocate Edith?‘Opwindende tijden’ van...

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...

Nicolas Mathieu / And Their Children After Them (Large Paperback)

August 1992. A valley lost somewhere in the East, blast furnaces that no longer burn, a lake, a hot afternoon. Anthony is fourteen years old, and with his cousin, to kill boredom, he decides to steal...

Olga Tokarczuk / Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a 2009 mystery novel by Olga Tokarczuk. Originally published in Polish by Wydawnictwo Literackie, it was later translated to English by Antonia...

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...

Orhan Pamuk / Strangeness In My Mind

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may...

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...

Per Olav Enquist / Lewi's Journey (Hardback)

Lewi Pethrus, a humble preacher and unsuccessful writer, and Sven Lidman, a bohemian poet haunted by his failed marriage, lead the Swedish Pentecostal movement from a crumbling renegade congregation...

Per Petterson / Out Stealing Horses (Large Paperback)

Anne Born (Translator) We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and...

Peter Hoeg / Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a...

Péter Nádas / A Book of Memories (Large Paperback)

Ivan Sanders (Translator), Imre Goldstein This extraordinary magnum opus seems at first to be a confessional autobiographical novel in the grand manner, claiming and extending the...

Piergiorgio Pulixi / The Night of the Panthers (Large Paperback)

Money, sex, and power. Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the head of a special unit composed cops who have been trained in the investigation of organized crime. He is a kind of father figure to these hard...

Pierre Choderlos De Laclos - Dangerous Acquaintances ( Les Liaisons Dangereuses) - Vintage PB

An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats. Translated from the original French by Richard Adlington. Originally published 1782,...

Pierre Jarawan / The Storyteller (Large Paperback)

The Storyteller Pierre Jarawan, Rachel McNicholl & Sinéad Crowe (Translators)     Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s adopted home...

Pierre Lemaitre / Alex

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost -...

Pierre Lemaitre / Alex (Large Paperback)

  Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost...

Pierre Lemaitre / Irene (Hardback)

  For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented...

Pierre Lemaitre / The Wide World (Large Paperback)

Heralding the first volume of THE GLORIOUS YEARS  series THE WIDE WORLD is an epic novel of family fortunes, twisted secrets, and love, from a winner of the Prix Goncourt, and three times winner...

Piotr Sommer / Things to Translate & Other Poems (Large Paperback)

 E. Adams (Translator), John Ashbery (Translator) Piotr Sommer is one of Poland’s leading poets. The translations were made with the help of leading British and American...

Pol Koutsakis / Athenian Blues

The first in the Stratos Gazis mystery series and the first time this Greek novelist is available in English.Stratos hates being called a hitman. A conscientious fixer is what he is. He fixes...

Putu Wijaya / Telegram (Large Paperback)

Stephen J. Epstein (Translator) Putu Wijaya’s debut novel, Telegram , was a literary trendsetter for its synthesis of reality and fantasy. Unapologetically disorienting, the text offers a...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e...

Riku Onda / The Aosawa Murders

The novel starts in the 1973 when 17 people die of cyanide poisoning at a party given by the owners of a prominent clinic in a town on the coast of the Sea of Japan. The only surviving links to what...

Roberto Perrone / The Second Life of Inspector Canessa ( Annibale Canessa Series - Book 1 )

Family secrets, terrorist plots and the return of a legendary cop: a ferociously paced noir thriller from one of Italy’s top crime writers, and the second book in Pushkin Press’s...

Rolando Ernesto Tellez / Dario's Popular Poems (Large Paperback)

This book contains a compilation of poems written by the most famous Nicaraguan poet, Rubén Darío (1867-1916). He is the founder of a literary movement, "modernismo." Rolando Ernesto...

Sandro Veronesi / The Hummingbird (Large Paperback)

The Hummingbird tells the story of Marco Carrera, an ophthalmologist. He marries the wrong-but-right-but-wrong woman – Marina, who is unfaithful. He loves the right-but-wrong-but-right...

Sarah Cohen-Scali / Max

Nazi Germany. 1936.In the Lebensborn program, carefully selected German women are recruited by the Nazis to give birth to new members of the Aryan race. Inside one of these women is Max, literally...

Sarah Gilmartin - Service - HB - German Edition

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Shusaku Endo / Silence

 Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Liam Neeson, Adam Driver and Andrew Garfield. With an introduction by Martin Scorsese'One of the finest historical novels...

Sosuke Natsukawa / The Cat Who Saved Books (Hardback)

 Grandpa used to say it all the time: books have tremendous power. But what is that power really? Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering...

Stefan Zweig - Le Brésil, Terre d'Avenir - PB

En 1940, fuyant le désastre de l’Europe, l’auteur du Joueur d’échecs s’installe au Brésil, découvert quelques années plus tôt...

Stefan Zweig / Beware of Pity

Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin Press in a cloth bound hardback,...

Stefan Zweig / The World of Yesterday

 'The time provides the pictures, I merely speak the words to go with them, and it will not be so much my own story I tell as that of an entire generation - our unique generation, carrying a...

Suzanne Collins - Vlammen ( De Hongerspelen 2 ) ( Nederland Edition) - PB

Katniss Everdeen heeft meer geluk gehad dan ze ooit had durven dromen. Samen met Peeta Mellark heeft ze de roemruchte Hongerspelen gewonnen, ook al schrijven de regels voor dat er maar...

Søren Sveistrup / The Chestnut Man (Large Paperback)

A NAIL-BITINGLY THRILLING CRIME NOVEL FROM THE SCRIPT WRITER BEHIND THE KILLINGRosa Hartung is returning to her job as Minister for Social Affairs, a year since the disappearance of her twelve...

Torgny Lindgren / In Praise of Truth (Hardback)

In Praise of Truth is about fraud, forgery and lies. The centre stage of the story is taken up by a singer who has, between the twelfth and fifteenth year of her life, become the darling of TV...

Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz / The Passenger

 BERLIN, NOVEMBER 1938. With storm troopers battering against his door, Otto Silbermann must flee out the back of his own home. He emerges onto streets thrumming with violence: it is...

Umberto Eco / The Prague Cemetery (Large Paperback)

   An inspired twisting of history and fiction by the best-selling author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Nineteenth-century Europe-from Turin to Prague to Paris-abounds with the ghastly and the...

Xinran / Miss Chopsticks (Large Paperback)

Esther Tyldesley (Translator) Xinran takes her readers to the heart of modern Chinese society in this delightful and absorbing tale of three peasant girls getting to grips with life in the big...

Yan Lianke / Heart Sutra (Large Paperback)

Multi-prizewinning and internationally acclaimed Yan Lianke -- 'China's most controversial novelist' (New Yorker) -- returns with a campus novel like no other following a young Buddhist as she...

Ye Zhaoyan / Nanjing 1937 : A Love Story (Large Paperback)

Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historic capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 is a tender story of...

Yoel Hoffmann / Katschen & The Book Of Joseph (Hardback)

Katschen & The Book of Joseph makes an amazing American debut for Israeli writer Yoel Hoffmann. Intensely moving, the two novellas display the entirely original poetry and hypnotic verve of...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago ( Vintage PB 1974)

Published by Fontana UK, 1974, first published in translation in English in 1973. Translation by Thomas P. Whitney.  This is Volume 1 of The Gulag Archipelago - 'Book 1 & 2  ''The...