Fiction in Translation

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. Theres the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take ...

Upon entering the Royal Spanish Academy in 1975, Miguel Delibes delivered an address which reclaimed El camino (1950) for the emerging Green moveme...

T., an acclaimed but aging actor, and Efina, a passionate theatergoer, are engaged in an obsessive love affair that careens from attraction to repu...

One of the most widely read books of all time, Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio is a riotous, tragicomic tale that will charm young and old with its endea...

Ogata Shingo is growing old, and his memory is failing him. At night he hears only the sound of death in the distant rumble from the mountain. The ...

A profoundly touching contribution to the tradition of the metaphysical novel as exemplified by Dostoyevsky and Bernanos, and likewise a worthy cou...

'A bone-chillingly cool crime debut' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainIn the remote Swedish wetlands lies Mossmarken: the village on t...

Dont Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mb...

Candide is an innocent young nobleman who leads an idyllic, sheltered life and has adopted the optimistic mindset promoted by his tutor Dr Pangloss...

Dont Whisper Too Much was the first work of fiction by an African writer to present love stories between African women in a positive light. Bona Mb...

Marcia is sixteen, overweight and unhappy. One day, as she's walking down a Buenos Aires street, she hears a shout: 'Wannafuck?' Startled, she turn...

From bestselling Spanish author Paul Pen comes a haunting and hopeful tale of discovering light in even the darkest of places.For his whole life, t...

It all began with an unusual assignment, a job better suited for Marlowe than for counsel for the defence Guido Guerrieri. Could he find new eviden...

Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen DeadSunday Times Crime Book of the Month, August 2015The wronged do not rest in peaceMarsa...

Its the 1980s in Lagos de Moreno a town where there are more cows than people, and more priests than cows and a poor family is struggling to get ...

The most fascinating and wonderful book JAN MORRISA restrained, lyrical tour de force OWEN SHEERSIn the early years of the last century, Rebecca is...

One of Elena Ferrante's best 40 books by female writersWhen Maria, the fourth child of a widow, is adopted by the old and childless Bonaria Urrai, ...

A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society, Ruy Murakami's Popular Hits of the Showa Era is a literary karaoke a...

THE NOVELIST KILLS BY THE BOOK For Commandant Camille Verhven life is beautiful. He is happily married and soon to become a father. HE'S ALWAYS ON...

Fabien and Sylvie had both known their marriage was no longer working. And yet when Sylvie is involved in a fatal car accident, her husband is stun...