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...

Abdelilah Hamdouchi / Whitefly (Large Paperback)

The traffickers. The drug dealers. The smugglers.They know what it takes to get a gun into Morocco, and so does Detective Laafrit.When a fourth corpse in three days washes up in Tangier with a bullet...

Abdelkader Benali / Wedding by the Sea (Hardback)

Twenty-year-old Dutch-Moroccan, Lamarat Minar, is given the unenviable task of tracing his errant uncle and returning him to his waiting bride, Lamarat's sister, Rebekka. After many u-turns,...

Alan Ayling & Duncan Mackintosh - A Collection of Chinese Lyrics - HB ( Dual Language Poetry) 1965

Published by Routledge Kegan Paul, 1965.  A collection of Chinese lyric poems ( tz'u) from the T'ang and Sung dynasties ( circa 750 to 1700 AD) , some with period illustrations also. 

Alex Beer / The Second Rider (Large Paperback)

August Emmerich - Book 1 The Second Rider Alex Beer, Tim Mohr (Translator)     Vienna, 1919. In the desperate years after World War I, the Habsburg Empire is a...

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...

Álvaro Colomer / Uppsala Woods (Large Paperback)

"'I prefer a divorce to a funeral.' Realizing that my words, however harsh they may seem, conceal a declaration of love, perhaps the most sincere declaration of love I've ever made to her, she...

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” at the Muslim communities of Rome...

Andrés Barba / August, October (Large Paperback)

Lisa Dillman (Translator) "Andrés Barba needs no introduction. He has his own intentional world perfectly contained and a literary gift that belies his age." —Mario Vargas Llosa"A...

Andrey Kurkov / The Silver Bone (Large Paperback)

Kyiv Mysteries / Samson und Nadjeschda #1 Boris Dralyuk (Translator)   Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his...

Antonio Skármeta / 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...

Arnaldur Indriðason / Tainted Blood

Delving into a murdered man’s life, Detective Erlendur discovers that forty years ago he was accused of an appalling crime. Did his past come back to haunt him? Erlendur uses all the forensic...

Arturo Pérez-Reverte / The Siege (Large Paperback)

Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to...

Asako Yuzuki / Butter (Large Paperback)

  Polly Barton (Translator) The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.There are two...

Bernhard Schlink / Flights of Love (Hardback)

A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Angel's Game

 The stunning new novel from the internationally bestselling author of THE SHADOW OF THE WIND.In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man - David Martin - makes his living by...

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. In the heart of Barcelona's winding alleyways, Daniel Sempere runs the Sempere...

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...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prince Of Mist (Hardback)

 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the coast, to an old house that once belonged to a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Prisoner of Heaven (Large Paperback)

      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...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon / The Shadow of the Wind

To view the synopsis (blurb) from the back of this book click on the picture to enlarge it. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón / The Shadow of the Wind (Large Paperback)

  Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book...

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 Martín 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)

In 1187, on the day of her wedding, the beautiful 15-year-old Esclarmonde scandalizes the court when she refuses to accept the knight chosen by her father, the lord of the domain of Whispers. She...

Carolyn Choa / The Picador Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (Large Paperback)

Carolyn Choa and David Su Li-Qun have brought together in one volume pieces by some of the most radical and popular contemporary Chinese writers. Variously funny, moving, wistful and shocking, these...

Caryl Férey / Zulu (Large Paperback)

Howard Curtis (Translator) As a child, Ali Neuman ran away from home to escape the Inkatha, a militant political party at war with the then-underground African National Congress. He and his...

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...

Dacia Maraini / The Silent Duchess

In early 18th century Sicily, noblewoman Marianna Ucrìa is trapped in a world of silence after a terrible childhood trauma left her deaf and mute. Married off to a lecherous uncle, she...

Daniel Kehlmann / F - ( A Novel)

Artful and subversive, F tells the story of the Friedland family - fakers, all of them - and the day when the fate in which they don't quite believe catches up with them.Having achieved nothing in...

Daniel Pennac / Passion Fruit (Large Paperback)

Malaussène #6 Married on Saturday, Thèrése Malausséne dumps her husband, the ramrod-straight, squeaky-clean councillor, and returns to her own home in Paris's...

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...

Daniele Del Giudice / Take-Off (Large Paperback)

Interweaving observation and dream, Take-Off is a meditation on flying. Its eight chapters carry the reader up to the clouds, into a world governed by different laws, where as we look...

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...

Drago Jančar ( Editor) / Best European Fiction 2014 (Large Paperback)

From Belarus to Wales! Translated from more than 25 languages and highlighting the future luminaries and revolutionaries of international literature. Fans of the series will find everything they've...

Duo Ji Zhuo Ga / Love in No Man's Land (Large Paperback)

Hallie Treadway (translator) The Changthang Plateau lies in the centre of Tibet. A vast, rolling grassland stippled with azure-blue lakes and ringed by snow peaks, it is home to seven-year-old...

Elena Ferrante / The Story Of The Lost Child (Large Paperback)

 The "stunning conclusion" to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review).The Story of...

Elin Cullhed / Euphoria (Large Paperback)

Translated from the original Swedish by Jennifer Hayashida. 2022.  A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a...

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...

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...

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...

Esther Yi / Y/N (Large Paperback)

Chi-Young Kim (Translator) Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a...

Fabrice Humbert / The Origin of Violence (Hardback)

During a school trip to Buchenwald concentration camp, a young French teacher comes across a photograph of a man whose resemblance to his own father, Adrien, is uncanny. However, the man has a...

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)

In a magical realm, three teenage girls-Jade, Opal, and Amber-are chosen to fulfil an ancient prophecy. Although they meet as strangers, they must learn to trust one another with their lives as...

Francisco Sionil José / 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...

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...