Fiction in Translation

Out running an errand, Valeria Cossati gives in to a sudden impulse - she buys a shiny black notebook. She starts keeping a diary in secret, record...

As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.Chris Kraus, author of I Love DickJo is ...

One of the masters of the short story Guardian I have to tell you you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have been through...Th...

Empordan Scafarlata is a mirage of memories written with intelligence, irony, courage and tenderness; linking tradition, modernity, resentment and ...

An iron-willed mother, an ageing grandmother, a pair of mismatched dogs and 90 mu of less-than-ideal farmland: these are Li Juans companions on the...

What was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness. A delicate and arresting queer novel from one of Korea's most celebra...

Originally deemed a cynical, pessimistic - and, above all, overly revealing - portrayal of life as a newspaperman upon its release in interwar Denm...

China is ageing. Its shrinking households, overworked and overstretched, struggle to carry the burden of care for their elderly. Retired Beijing ju...

Banipal 73 - Fiction Past and Present is a delicious mix of pioneering, emerging and established authors from around the Arab world. With short sto...

That spring, as if by agreement, we got it into our heads that something should finally happen, something should change.A selection taken from the ...

Rasma hated her dreams; they made her sick she rested best when she fell into complete silence and darkness.Rasma is a taxi driver with a mysterio...

An evocative collection of vignettes and essays from Ukraines voice of classical antiquity, now available in English for the first time.Inspired by...

Under Fire, first published in French as Le Feu, was one of the first novels about WWI, appearing in December 1916, before the outcome of the war w...

THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER'A masterpiece' The Times'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' ObserverParis, 2018. Diégane Latyr Fa...

The political stature of the Pallava crown prince, Narasimha Varmar, has grown considerably after defeating the king of Ganga Nadu at the historic ...

A young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours...

The latest volume of creative writing from the translation strand of UEA's world-renowned Creative Writing MA, from the 2020/21 student cohort.

Family brings the young woman back to the Faroe Islands - the windswept, rocky northern archipelago where she has never lived but which she has alw...

In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two I...

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE If you enjoyed Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo, you'll love this international #1 bestseller.*** ...

Historical fiction meets fantasy in The Book of Perilous Dishes, a playful tale of dark magic and epic adventure that traverses Europe at the turn ...

What did the disintegration of the Soviet Union feel like for the people who lived through it? Award-winning writer Sasha Salzmann tells this story...

The electrifying new novel from the sensational bestselling winner of the International Booker Prize.'It's been a long time since a novel has destr...

Take a literary stroll through the streets of Paris, visit its world-famous monuments, delve into its history and wander amongst its poets and arti...

'A gripping thriller and an ode to nature's preservation' Croix'Breathtaking' Livres HebdoRaphaëlle, a forest warden, lives alone with her beloved ...

Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see.In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Near...

The prize-winning 100,000-copy Italian bestseller </h3>*A 2023 book of the year for the Financial Times, the Irish Times, the New European, ...

This new Satyricon features not only a lively, new, annotated translation of the text, but fresh and accessible commentaries that discuss Petronius...

Translated from Arabic, Code Name: Butterfly is a captivating YA novel that transcends language to deliver a tale of love, loyalty, and coming of a...

Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom he calls Sensei. Set in the ea...

***Shortlisted for the CWA Crime in Translation Dagger 2023***'An excellent crime thriller with an explosive climax' Bill Todd, The Sun'A suspensef...

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award 2021'Herman Koch has made a career from saying the apparently unsayable.' - Financial TimesWhen Robert Wal...

On the Edge is a first-of-its-kind collection of short stories and extracts from novels centred on theme of same-sex desire, translated from the or...

IF YOU SEE HIS REFLECTIONIT'S ALREADY TOO LATE . . .Five years ago, Jenny Lind was abducted on her way home from school.Now her lifeless body is fo...

'At once a suspenseful manhunt story and a knowing portrait of the perils of ordinary life in Hitler's Germany, The Seventh Cross is not only an im...