Fiction In Translation

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessman torn between duty and desire.'On the train,...

A seeker after truth will be hunted as prey. When controversial Professor Kristian Storm is found hanged in his office, his assistant Marie Skov refuses to believe that he has...

The eight stories in this collection, by Moravian, Pavese, Pratolina, and other modern writers, have been selected as being representative of contemporary Italian writing. The English translations provided are literal...

'Dorthe Nors is fantastic!' Junot Diaz'Nors' writing is by turns witty, gut wrenching, stark and lyrical.' Los Angeles TimesSonja's over forty, and she's trying to move in the right direction....

Probably the most autobiographical of his novels, From the Diary of a Snail balances the agonising history of the persecuted Danzig Jews with an account of Grass's political campaigning with...

A BBC TWO BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICKOne relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a...

PRE-ORDER THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOPPraise for Satoshi Yagisawa - an author beloved by readers . . .'It gently healed my...

'An important literary piece of feminist activism''Taps into the everyday minutiae of motherhood, baring to all the unspoken labours that women take on both inside and out of parenthood''Really made...

A rousingly romantic Mediterranean novel of love and war. World War II has just ended, and Colonel Carlo Terzo, a brilliant military strategist, retires to Sicily with his beautiful Russian...

'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times*A major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book...

Without Blood begins with a shocking, visceral act of violence - the assassination of a man and his family. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of...

Another stunning novel by the author of The Alchemist. Aleph marks a return to Paulo Coelho's beginnings. In a frank and surprising personal story, one of the world's most beloved...

This is a modern-day adventure story featuring Paulo's supernatural encounter with angels - who appear as warrior women and travel through the Mojave desert on their motorbikes. Haunted by a...

Marie Darrieussecq tells the story of a single day in the life of a mother and her three grown-up daughters. Now scattered between the South of France and Buenos Aires,...

Geralt is a witcher, a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is...

The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector...

Just thirty, with a well-paid job, depression and no love life, the narrator and anti-hero par excellence of this grim, funny and clever novel smokes four packs of cigarettes a...

I want to write a book about Vilhelm's room and the events which took place in it, or arose from it; those that led to Lise's death, which I have...

In The Sicilian Method, Andrea Camilleri's twenty-sixth novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play.Mimi Augello is visiting his lover...

The Cook of the Halcyon is the penultimate novel in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series from the master of Sicilian crime, Andrea Camilleri.Moments later the all-white schooner, which looked like...

'THE QUEEN OF SCANDINAVIAN CRIME THRILLERS' RED'A THRILLER WRITER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER' LIZA MARKLUNDHanna Wilhelmsen investigates a brutal series of murders in this chilling mystery perfect for fans of...

PICK UP YOUR NEXT READ FOR FANS OF LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR and BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD - the story of a young man with special powers to...

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in...

'As agile as a matador, Gomez-Jurado skilfully balances exhilarating thrills with the melancholy that is the price of Antonia's gifts' - The Times"I hope you haven't forgotten me. Shall we...

A special night edition to celebrate the success of The Convenience Store by the Sea. Everything you loved about the original in a stunning new companion package.Welcome to Tenderness. Our...

A gripping historical thriller that bridges the horrors of World War II and the geopolitical complexities of the 1980sShlomo Libowitz and Anton Epstein, two Jewish prisoners subjected to horrific experiments...

The characters in False Warare ambivalent castaways living lives of deep estrangement from their home country, stranded in an existential no-man's land. Some of them want to leave and can't,...

The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali residents: aid-workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, soldiers, prostitutes and assorted expatriates. Among these patrons is the...

The Black Book is Orhan Pamuk's tour de force, a stunning tapestry of Middle Eastern and Islamic culture which confirmed his reputation as a writer of international stature. Richly atmospheric...