Fiction In Translation

Edinburgh, 1874. On the coldest night the world has ever seen, Little Jack is born with a frozen heart and immediately undergoes a life-saving operation. But Dr Madeleine is no...

Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeIn the darkening embers of a Communist utopia, life in a desolate Hungarian town has come to a virtual standstill. Flies buzz, spiders...

** ORDER NIGHTS OF PLAGUE, THE NEW NOVEL FROM ORHAN PAMUK **Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'Dazzling . . . Turns the detective novel on its head.' Independent on...

Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives,...

Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last of...

What if something is out there? A haunting supernatural thriller for fans of Let the Right One In, The Passage and Salem's Lot.'I was enthralled form the very first page...

Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger The Am Spiegelgrund clinic, in glittering Vienna, masqueraded as a reform school for wayward boys and girls and a home for chronically ill children....

Kikuji has been invited to a tea ceremony by a mistress of his dead father. He is shocked to find there the mistress's rival and successor, Mrs. Ota, and that...

Three women who almost had it all...Norah thinks she has made it when she qualifies as a lawyer in Paris; Fanta works her way into a prestigious teaching job in...

A wildly inventive story collection from legendary film director Pedro AlmodovarThe Last Dream brings together for the first time twelve unpublished stories from Almodovar's personal archive, written between the late...

A thriller like you've never read one before, from the hottest new voice in Korean fiction 'Kill Bill meets Murakami' D. B. John, author of Star of the North 'A...

'Delightfully taut, this unashamedly and gloriously violent novel has a ferocity that belies its tender heart. A slick and brutal tale that delivers a short, sharp shock with wit and...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE AND BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2018PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOKS OF 2018CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS 'MOST ANTICIPATED FICTION BOOKS OF 2018' '(A) beautiful book, by a...

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop, an extraordinary novel about self-discovery and new beginnings. Marianne Messman longs to escape her loveless marriage...

This is the story of a dog named Scraggly. Born an outsider because of her distinctive appearance, she spends most of her days in the sun-filled yard of her owner's...

'The greatest novel of the 20th century you've never heard of' TelegraphWith an Introduction by Gabriel Garcia MarquezA new translation by Douglas J. WeatherfordIn this stunning masterpiece of the surreal,...

THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDEPRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR'A grand storyteller' - KHALED HOSSEINI'A new novel by Isabel Allende is always a treat' - DAILY...

Salome was bullied for years and no one did a single thing to help her.One day she finally snapped.Now at just sixteen years old, she's being held in a secure...

"The House with the Stained-Glass Window is remarkable, a gripping, Lvivian evocation of a city and a family across a long and painful century, at once personal and political, a...

Based on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics....

This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a...

Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the air with sky writing, Roberto Bolano's Nazi...

A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school...

"Brilliant - funny, wise and completely addictive - a work of angry, outrageous and hilarious genius" VICTORIA HISLOP"Full of energy and blistering rationality" LISA McINERNEY"A must-read . . . While...

'This is where the story should end, but life is not as kind as literature...'A journey to Acapulco gradually becomes a descent into the underworld. An elderly South American writer...

This is from a Turkish writer who has been compared with Joyce, Nabokov, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez comes a dazzling novel set in the Ottoman Empire, at once a captivating...

'So it happens, therefore, that every element says something to someone'Inspired by the rhythms of the Periodic Table, Primo Levi assesses his life in terms of the chemical elements he...

Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover, he has an extraordinary gift: a sense...

"A deeply moving book." -LEILA SLIMANI *** "A work of rare grace and importance."-THE GUARDIANIn January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an...

International Booker-longlisted author Clemens Meyer returns with Dark Satellites, a striking collection of stories about marginal characters in contemporary Germany. A train driver's life is upended when he hits a...

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Man Booker International Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel. In a remote Polish village, Janina Duszejko,...

It's October 1918 and the war is drawing to a close. Toussaint Caillet returns home to his wife, Jeanne, and the young daughter he hasn't seen growing up. He is...

Meetings, partings, loves and losses in rural France are dissected with compassion. The late wedding guest isn't your cousin but a drunken chancer. The driver who gives you a lift...

A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehensionFinding her comfortable bourgeois existence as wife and mother tedious after eight years...

A remarkable French first novel about war, pain and suffering, written in a beautiful, spare prose. Set in the aftermath of the Gulf War, Dominique Sigaud's 1st novel tells the...