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...