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    Enjoy these books from around the world which have been translated into English for your reading pleasure. Add some international flavour to your reading list.

    Patrick Süskind: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer [2010] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    An erotic masterpiece of twentieth century fiction - a tale of sensual obsession and bloodlust in eighteenth century Paris'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' GuardianIn eighteenth-century...

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journey to the End of the Night (Alma Classics): Louis-Ferdinand Céline [2012] paperback

    €13.00

    First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by...

    Yoko Ogawa: Revenge [2020] paperback

    €13.00

    FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE MEMORY POLICE 'A conspicuously gifted writer...To read Ogawa is to enter a dreamlike state tinged with a nightmare, and her stories continue to haunt. She...

    Junichiro Tanizaki: The Makioka Sisters (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Junichiro Tanizaki (Vintage Classic Japanese Series) [2019] paperback

    €16.90

    'An exquisite novel about four sisters living though a turbulent decade...I'd put it in the 10 greatest books of the 20th century' David Mitchell'A near-perfect novel' Hanya YanagiharaIn the years...

    Haruki Murakami: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Haruki Murakami (Vintage Classic Japanese Series) [2019] paperback

    €16.90

    Enter the surreal and enchanting world of Haruki MurakamiToru Okada's cat has disappeared. His wife is growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he...

    Yukio Mishima: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With the Sea (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Yukio Mishima (Vintage Classic Japanese Series) [2019] paperback

    €14.30

    'Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The TimesA band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train...

    Roy Jacobsen: Eyes of the Rigel [2021] paperback

    €11.99

    The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen "Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an epic of Norway's experience of the first...

    Roy Jacobsen: White Shadow [2020] paperback

    €13.00

    The sequel to the Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Unseen"A gifted writer, stylish, laconic and imaginative" Paul Owen, TLS"A beautiful sequel to The Unseen, set around the remote & unforgiving island...

    Roy Jacobsen: The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles: Roy Jacobsen [2017] paperback

    €13.00

    'A compact and compelling novel by an iconic Norwegian writer...[and] thanks to Don Bartlett and Don Shaw's crisp translation, we see it obliquely' - IndependentSet in Finland in 1939, this...

    Clarice Lispector: Near to the Wild Heart (Penguin Modern Classics) [2014] paperback

    €13.00

    Clarice Lispector's sensational, prize-winning debut novel Near to the Wild Heart was published when she was just twenty-three and earned her the name 'Hurricane Clarice'. It tells the story of...

    Karl Ove Knausgaard: A Man in Love: My Struggle Book 2 (My Struggle, 2) [2013] paperback

    €13.00

    An electrifying story about love and new life from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard.* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning Star, is available to pre-order now *This...

    Haruki Murakami: After Dark: Murakami Haruki [2008] paperback

    €6.99€13.00

    Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the surreal.Eyes mark the shape of the city The midnight hour approaches...

    Karl Ove Knausgaard: A Death in the Family: My Struggle Book 1 (My Struggle, 1) [2013] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    One of the Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, an addictive and searingly honest novel about childhood, family and grief.* Karl Ove Knausgaard's dazzling new novel, The Morning...

    A Wild Sheep Chase: Haruki Murakami [2000] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    A marvelous hybrid of mythology and mystery, A Wild Sheep Chase is the extraordinary literary thriller that launched Haruki Murakami's international reputation.It begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives...

    Haruki Murakami: Dance Dance Dance: Haruki Murakami [2002] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.High-class...

    Haruki Murakami: South of the Border, West of the Sun: Haruki Murakami [2000] paperback

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    A moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chancesGrowing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His...

    Han Kang: The Vegetarian: A Novel [2015] paperback

    €5.99€11.70

    Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their...

    Yoko Ogawa: The Housekeeper and the Professor (Vintage Classics Japanese Series): Yoko Ogawa (Vintage Classic Japanese Series) [2019] paperback

    €14.30

    'This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and...

    Yoko Ogawa: The Memory Police: Yoko Ogawa [2020] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2020, an enthralling Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance from one of Japan's greatest writers.'Beautiful... Haunting' Sunday Times'A dreamlike story of dystopia'...

    Tokarczuk Olga: The Books of Jacob: Olga Tokarczuk [2021] paperback

    €9.99€26.00

    In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas begin to sweep the continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not...

    Roy Jacobsen: The Unseen: SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017 [2017] paperback

    €4.99€13.00

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Nobody can leave an island. An island is a cosmos in a nutshell, where the stars slumber in the grass beneath the...

    Sayaka Murata: Earthlings [2021] paperback

    €6.99€13.00

    Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu,...

    Mieko Kawakami: Breasts and Eggs: Mieko Kawakami [2021] paperback

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    'Breathtaking' - Haruki Murakami author of Norwegian WoodA New York Times 'Notable Book of 2020' and one of Elena Ferrante's 'Top 40 Books by Female Authors'On a hot summer's day...

    Cho Nam-Joo: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: The international bestseller [2021] paperback

    €6.99€11.70

    THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY SELLING SOUTH KOREAN SENSATION THAT HAS GOT THE WHOLE WORLD TALKING'A ground-breaking work of feminist fiction.' Stylist Who is Kim Jiyoung? Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to...

    Fernanda Melchor: Hurricane Season [2020] paperback

    €16.90

    The Witch is dead. After a group of children playing near the irrigation canals discover her decomposing corpse, the village of La Matosa is rife with rumours about how and...

    Yunqin Yang: Irishman in China: Robert Hart, Inspector General of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs [2013] hardback

    €7.99

    It was a long journey-in more ways than mere geography-from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life...

    Karin Fossum: Bad Intentions [2011] paperback

    €3.99

    Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water...

    Young-Ha Kim: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself [2007] paperback

    €6.99€12.84

    In the fast-paced, high-urban landscape of Seoul, C and K are brothers who have fallen in love with the same woman - Se-yeon - who tears at both of them...

    Ildef Falcones: Cathedral of the Sea [2008] paperback

    €6.99

    A masterful eipc of love, war, treason, plague, famine, witchcraft, anti-Semitism and the Inquisition 14th-century Spain, the medieval city of Barcelona is enjoying a golden age of prosperity. Its humblest...

    Andrei Makine: Dreams of My Russian Summers [1998] paperback

    €4.99

    A boy growing up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s and 1970s visits his French grandmother each summer, accumulating new tales of a Russia he never knew.

    Charlotte Roche: Wrecked [2014] paperback

    €5.99€7.99

    From the author of the international bestseller 'Wetlands', a raw and taboo-breaking novel of sex and grief, obsession and death. 'My therapist says I'm trying to escape fear through sex......

    Jean-Paul Didierlaurent: The Reader on the 6.27 [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    An international bestseller about the redemptive power of books, from French author Jean-Paul Didierlaurent. The Reader on the 6.27 is ready to take you on a journey . . .Guylain...

    Elin Cullhed: Euphoria [2023] paperback

    €13.00

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BERNARD SHAW PRIZEA woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll...

    Margarita Garcia Robayo: Holiday Heart [2020] paperback

    €13.00

    Lucia and Pablo are Colombian immigrants who've built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes towards their homeland and the extent to which it defines their identity....

    Cheon Myeong-kwan: Whale [2024] paperback

    €13.00

    "A DISTINCTLY KOREAN TAKE ON GREAT EXPECTATIONS." Financial TimesA woman sells her daughter to a passing beekeeper for two jars of honey. A baby weighing fifteen pounds is born in...

    Juan Gabriel Vasquez: Retrospective [2023] paperback

    €15.60

    "One of the great novels to have been written in our language" MARIO VARGAS LLOSA"Beautifully written and gripping" GuardianHe thought that memories were invisible like light, and just as smoke...

    Enrique Vila-Matas: Dublinesque [2013] paperback

    €6.99

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN FICTION PRIZE'A writer who has no equal in the contemporary landscape of the Spanish novel.' Roberto BolanoSamuel Riba is about to turn 60. A successful...

    Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Prisoner of Heaven [2012] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    The third in the cycle of novels that began with THE SHADOW OF THE WIND and THE ANGEL'S GAME. THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN returns to the world of the Cemetery...

    Eka Kurniawan: Beauty is a Wound [2016] paperback

    €5.99

    A colour-drenched epic set in Indonesia, filled with vivid sex and violence, from the Man Booker International Prize longlisted author'A literary child of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie'New York...

    Javier Cercas: Soldiers of Salamis [2004] paperback

    €6.99

    In the final moments of the Spanish Civil War, fifty prominent Nationalist prisoners are executed by firing squad. Among them is the writer and fascist Rafael Sanchez Mazas. As the...

    Marjolijn van Heemstra: In Search of a Name [2020] paperback

    €5.99

    This spellbinding and intimate novel explores the burden of legacy as a young woman wrestles with discoveries that contradict her great-uncle's supposed heroism during World War II.D says that a...

    Murata Kiyoko: A Woman of Pleasure [2024] paperback

    €16.90

    'Only Kiyoko Murata can convey this world' YOKO OGAWA, author of The Memory Police, Yomiuri ShibunThe year is 1903, and tenacious and spirited Aoi Ichi is sold to the most...

    Gómez-Jurado Juan: Black Wolf [2024] paperback

    €17.99

    The highly anticipated sequel to Juan Gomez-Jurado's number 1 international bestseller, Red Queen, featuring Antonia Scott, the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander. Translated by Nick Caistor and...

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