Fiction in Translation

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:...

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...

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...

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

 '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...

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...

Johan Theorin / The Voices Beyond (Large Paperback)

The Öland Series #4 Old Gerlof Davidsson is woken in the middle of the night by someone hammering on his door. A terrified boy staggers in and tells him a horrifying tale of a ship full of...

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 / White King (Large Paperback)

Universo Reina Roja #5 White King Juan Gómez-Jurado, Nick Caistor (Translator), Lorenza García (Translator)     "I hope you haven't...

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...

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...

Laura Esquivel / Like Water for Chocolate (Large Paperback)

Thomas Christensen (Translator), Carol Christensen (Translater) Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling...

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...

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,...

Maurice Leblanc / Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

The year is 1905. Meet Arsène Lupin: a gentleman and a thief.An enemy to the rich and powerful; a friend to the poor - Arsène Lupin will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants...

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...

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...

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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