Fiction in Translation

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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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...

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 / Strangeness In My Mind

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Out El Kouloub / Ramza (Large Paperback)

Out el Kouloub's Ramza is the story of one woman's rebellion against her life in the harem of a wealthy Egyptian family at the turn of the century. Although she flourishes in this world, secure...

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...

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 / I Refuse (Large Paperback)

I Refuse Per Petterson, Don Bartlett (Translator)     Two men meet by accident on a bridge early one morning. Once they were best friends - but Tommy and Jim...

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

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 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...

Robert Seethaler / A Whole Life

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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...

Romy Hausmann / Anatomy of a Killer (Large Paperback)

Hausmann is a force to be reckoned with' DAVID BALDACCI They say he's a murderer. But how could he be? Berlin, 2017: several young girls have been disappearing for the past fourteen years. Red...

Ronak Husni / Modern Arabic Short Stories (Large Paperback)

Modern Arabic Short Stories: A Bilingual Reader Ronak Husni (Editor), Daniel L. Newman (Editor)     The stories collected here are by leading authors of the...

Rosario Santos (Editor)/ And we sold the rain...(Voices 2) (Large Paperback)

Contemporary Fiction from Central America By turns unsettling, absurd, tragic, exhilarating, and mystical, the stories in And We Sold the Rain introduce us to the people behind the front-page stories...

Sándor Márai / Embers

 A castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains in the 1930s. Two men, inseparable in their youth, meet for the first time in forty-one years. They have spent their lives waiting for this...

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'...

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 Żeromski / Coming Spring (Large Paperback)

Coming Spring Stefan Żeromski, Bill Johnston (translator)     The Coming Spring (Przedwiosnie), Zeromski's last novel, tells the story of Cezary Baryka, a young...

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...

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 Name of the Rose

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