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:...

Gabriel García Márquez / News of a Kidnapping (Hardback)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's book begins in November 1990 in Bogota, Columbia, when a group of gunmen ambush a car, kill the chauffeur and kidnap its two women passengers. The gunmen were working for...

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...

Gu Byeong-mo / The Old Woman with the Knife (Large Paperback)

Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed isolation,...

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...

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 / 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 / Forest of the Pygmies

 From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax.Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far...

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 / In the Midst of Winter (Large Paperback)

 **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover**'In some of the most beautiful...

Isabel Allende / Island Beneath the Sea

   From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a...

Isabel Allende / Of Love And Shadows

Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for...

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 / Portrait in Sepia (Hardback)

As a young girl, Aurora del Valle suffered a brutal trauma that has shaped her character and erased from her mind all recollection of the first five years of her life. Raised by her ambitious...

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 Wind Knows My Name

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on...

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

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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...

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...

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...

Lars Saabye Christensen / The Half Brother (Large Paperback)

This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.Traces four generations of a...

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...

Mai Jia / The Message (Large Paperback)

A dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time.China, 1941.At the height of the Second World War, Japan rules over China. In Hangzhou,...

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...

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...