Fiction in Translation

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. ...

A winegrower ruined by the Great French Vine Blight takes his one surviving vine stock and boards a ship for California. But the new life he has in...

Translated by Anton Hur'Violets lavishes attention on the kind of person who often slips through the cracks, unseen or ignored. There is a beauty a...

Appearing for the first time in English, Deceit is the debut novel by Yuri Felsen, a leading modernist writer of the interwar Russian diaspora. Kno...

SPAIN, 1937. Posted to the Aragonese front, Lieutenant Lluís Ruscalleda eschews the drunken antics of his comrades and goes in search of intrigue. ...

While at a party organized by the local landowner for the officers of his brigade, the shy and awkward Ryabovich is suddenly kissed by an unknown w...

''The uncontestable father of the modern short story... his stories are some of the best that have ever been written'' Guardian ''Chekhov'...

A wounded solider vanishes into notoriety.A nose is found in a loaf of bread.Places - like the Nevesky Prospect - are not what they seem. Nikolai ...

'I am sure a cigarette has a more poignant flavour when it is the last'A neurotic Italian businessman obsessed by his own hypochondria, Zeno Cosini...

A jewel of modern Norwegian literature now hailed as Lars Saabye Christensen's crowning achievement - an intricate and utterly compelling narrative...

A powerful novel of a young man living between Muslim and Christian worlds amid the Lebanese Civil War. Firefly paints a searing portrait of the...

The empire is in mortal danger. Hai Rui and his allies bought her time, but now it is spent. Endless war. Mass starvation. Bleak omens. Addled by m...

The new novel from the internationally bestselling, prizewinning, queen of Icelandic crime. All he wants is for them to say sorry. The police find ...

It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bárðu...

A delightful variation on the long tradition of bestiary writing, Jules Renards short verse and prose poems have captured the imagination of reader...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, ...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They'...

June 1941. Dutch diplomat Oscar Verschuur has been posted to neutral Switzerland. His family is spread across Europe. His wife Kate works as a nurs...

A young Parisian lawyer is found murdered, burned alive with a flaming tyre around his neck.For Lola Jost, retired police commissioner, the killer'...