Fiction in Translation

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 (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...

Niklas Natt och Dag / The Wolf and the Watchman (Large Paperback)

It is 1793. Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III of Sweden, paranoia and whispered conspiracies are Stockholm’s daily...

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

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Otfried Preußler / The Little Ghost (Large Paperback)

A little ghost who always wanted to see the town by daylight creates chaos when he does, and finds himself unable to be a night ghost again. Translated from the original German Das kleine...

Patrick Suskind / Perfume

The year is 1738; the place, Paris. A baby is born under a fish-monger's bloody table in a marketplace, and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something...

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...

Pedro Mairal / The Woman from Uruguay (Large Paperback)

 Jennifer Croft (Translator)   Lucas Pereyra, an unemployed writer in his forties, embarks on a day trip from Buenos Aires to Montevideo to pick up fifteen thousand dollars in cash...

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...

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

A Book of Memories is a 1986 novel by the Hungarian writer Péter Nádas.  A psychological novel that is a coming-to-terms with the ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of...

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 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...

Robert Seethaler / A Whole Life

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Robert Seethaler / The Tobacconist

   'Set at a time of lengthening shadows, this is a novel about the sparks that illuminate the dark: of wisdom, compassion, defiance and courage. It is wry, piercing and also, fittingly,...

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...

Romain Slocombe / Monsieur Le Commandant

French Academician and Nazi sympathizer Paul-Jean Husson writes a letter to his local SS officer in the autumn of 1942.Tormented by an illicit passion for Ilse, his German daughter-in-law, Husson has...

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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Sigge Eklund / The Group (Large Paperback)

A SEARING HOT SUMMER READ FOR FANS OF SALTBURN AND THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY. 'Addictive, evocative and effortlessly stylish' Culturefly | 'Very much for fans of The Secret History . . . glamorous'...

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 / The Post Office Girl

    It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an...

Stefania Auci / The Florios of Sicily (Large Paperback)

Based on the true history of the uncrowned kings of Sicily: the story of a family, restless and ambitious, shrewd and determined to be richer and more powerful than anybody else. In this...

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...

Timur Vermes / The Hungry and the Fat (Large Paperback)

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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...

Umberto Eco / The Name of the Rose

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Willem Frederik Hermans / A Guardian Angel Recalls

Alberegt, a public prosecutor and self-proclaimed “man of minor failings,” speeds through Hook of Holland in his black Renault on May 9, 1940. His every move is guided by the cool and...

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...