Fiction in Translation

Othman al-Sheikh is running away from the shadows of his past life in a small dusty village in the Libyan Desert. Tripoli, meanwhile, is a city in ...

In a seamless mosaic of dreams and games, a young boy reflects on events as his hometown in Albania falls to a series of invaders. Amid floods and ...

'Beyond brilliance . . . magnificent, stark and beautiful' Irish Times 'An allegory of economic inequality and revolutionary rage' John Self 'It lo...

Friedrich Torberg's Young Gerber (Der Schüler Gerber) is an almost unbearably moving classic novel, which tells of a schoolboy driven to madness, a...

Every second son must be sacrificed at the age of fifteen. But will one boy defy all odds and triumph... On the island of Wayo Wayo, every second s...

The New Adventures of Sinbad the Sailor by gifted young Algerian novelist Salim Bachi is the story of a modern-day Odysseus, living and loving his ...

Composed before and during the first months of the First World War, Paul Morand did not publish these stories until 1921. Clarissa, Delphine and Au...

Marella Caracciolo Chia's The Light in Between chronicles the brief, intense love affair between Roman Princess Vittoria Colonna and Futurist paint...

At 3 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon in 1911, Oskar Johansson is caught in a blast in an industrial accident. The local newspaper reports him dead, bu...

Bottini is a terrific storyteller SUNDAY EXPRESSThe third in the Black Forest Investigations series - by CWA shortlisted authorOne wet and misty we...

  WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction... A young girl loses h...

An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime. Olga Tokarczuk, 2018 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The sprightly narrative and vivid evocatio...

Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he nee...

By the author of LOOK WHO'S BACK, a radical and bold satire in inequitable times.Whizz-bang energy and gleeful imaginative savagery Sam Leith, Guar...

'It sounds dreadful,' I said to him one day. 'But actually the war is the best thing that ever happened to me.' Helena's mother always said she was...

'I work in an office. I take cards out of a file. Once I have taken them out, I put them back in again. That is it.' Twenty-three-year-old Frits -...

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have a...

FROM THE WINNER OF THE PRIX GONCOURT 2023Described as 'unforgettable' by the Mail on Sunday, A Hundred Million Years and a Day is a pocket-sized ep...

This new edition of poems and prose by Mihai Eminescu commemorates the 130th anniversary of the death of Romanias national poet. This book includes...

The secret behind the smile is revealed.Three things have led the young nobleman Bougainville to his great, tragic love: war (he went to fight the ...

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement. His mission is to blow up buses transporting P...

'It sounds dreadful,' I said to him one day. 'But actually the war is the best thing that ever happened to me.' Helena's mother always said she wa...

The debut novel by the great Flemish writer Erwin Mortier, Marcel vividly describes the history of a family in a Flemish village, bowed by the weig...

Joris has lived with his aunt and uncle in a village since his early childhood; his father died young and his mother moved to Spain. He is a quiet ...

In this story about love as second skin, Mortier remains true to the perspective of his dazzling debut, Marcel, looking at the world through the ey...

An Irish Times Book of the YearA small boy grows up in Amsterdam, making sand pies, playing with his favourite jumping jack toy, visiting his fathe...

Enter Arsene Lupin, Gentleman - Cambrioleur, the 'Prince of Thieves', one of the most daring and dashing individuals who ever lifted a diamond neck...

Robert Junior never knew the father he was named for, an American G.I. who was captured during the Battle of the Bulge and fell briefly into the ar...

The story is violent, pacy and full of black humour. Imagine the Soprano family arriving in France, or perhaps better, Ray Liotta, the snitch from ...

A major classic of 1930s literature, Antal Szerb's Journey by Moonlight is the fantastically moving and darkly funny story of a bourgeois businessm...

It was 1969, and temperatures were rising across the factories of the north as workers demanded better pay and conditions. Soon, discontent would e...

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where multicultural citizens li...

Over two hundred years ago Bookholm, the City of Dreaming Books, was destroyed by a catastrophic firestorm. Optimus Yarnspinner, who witnessed this...

A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. ...

October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval eng...

Inspired by Dostoevsky's own gambling addiction and written under pressure in order to pay off his creditors and retain his rights to his literary ...

The Authority looks favourably upon meticulousness, efficiency and ambition. Bjorn has all of this in spades, but it's only in the Room that he can...

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2017'Hes a kind of surrealistic writer... I think thats serious literature' Haruki MurakamiAn utterly ...

  WINNER OF THE BIG BOOK AWARD, THE LEO TOLSTOY YASNAYA POLYANA AWARD & THE READ RUSSIA AWARD 'THE MOST IMPORTANT LIVING RUSSIAN WRITER' New ...

An NPR 'Great Read of 2014' A brilliant and hilarious satirical novel about the state of twenty-first century Israel On a rock-strewn hilltop in ...

An NPR 'Great Read of 2014' A brilliant and hilarious satirical novel about the state of twenty-first century Israel On a rock-strewn hilltop in ...

Olavo Bettencourt is an important man, a man of spin. With Brazil adjusting to the new idea of democracy, his PR firm holds the balance of power in...

This powerful novel, Tolstoys third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian ...