Fiction in Translation

On the one hand, there's Lola. A grumpy retired policewoman who cannot get by without her two best friends: red wine and jigsaw puzzles. On the oth...

When Señora Mir lays her body across the abandoned tracks for a tram that will never arrive, she presents Ringo Kid with a riddle he will not unrav...

Camilleri, best known for his Inspector Montalbano series, presents the charming Judge Surra who moves to a small Sicilian town in the late ninetee...

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that suc...

On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright summer's night. As the 24-hour light of the ar...

Based on a remarkable true story, Don't Tell Me You're Afraid is a moving, inspiring novel of a life lived in hope. Samia Omar grows up in war-torn...

Emiel Steegman, an unknown writer with a handful of novels to his name, is seeking a way to escape a dinner with Estonian colleagues. Although thin...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the li...

Three bodies lie at the bottom of a swimming pool in a gated country estate near Buenos Aires. It's Thursday night at the magnificent Scaglia house...

'Your Face Tomorrow is already being compared with Proust and rightly so' Observer'One of contemporary literature's major works ... you have to ope...

In these short, capricious and irreverent portraits of twenty-six great writers, from Joyce to Nabokov, Sterne to Wilde, Javier Marías, winner of t...

'A deceptive and riveting novel' - Karin SlaughterChosen as one of the best seven thrillers of the summer by the New York TimesA Nearly Normal Fami...

A gripping collection of Hakan Nesser''s best novellas and short stories, Intrigo is now the basis for three major motion pictures. Set in the fict...

Splendid' Telegraph 'Vivid, forceful, masterly' Guardian One of the most original new voices of Latin American literature' Mario Vargas Llosa Lond...

From the author of Asylum City - now a 12-part TV series, starring Hani Furstenberg and Dvir Benedek. After a brutal rape disturbs a quiet Tel Avi...

In a manner reminiscent of W.G. Sebald, Sarotar supplements the narrative with photographs, which help to blur the lines between fiction and journa...

Three perfectly balanced stories from one of Japan's greatest authorsThree perfectly executed stories from one of Japan's most beloved writers show...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocke...

This collection includes Akhmatova's letters, essays on Pushkin, diatribes against the Stalinist establishment, rousing wartime broadcasts, and enc...

From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the ye...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'Terrific . . . Intelligent and gripping' The Times'Tense, thrilling and genuinely scar...

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And thoug...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, wa...

Take a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you wh...

''Both heartbreaking and heartwarming'' - ***** Amazon reviewer''Emotional, charming and uplifting'' -***** Amazon reviewerA message in a bottle. O...

One of Pierre Michon''s most powerful works, this book imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincen...

An exploration of desire by the French master Pierre Michon  A haunting, imagistic book, somehow both lush and spare.Martin Riker, Wall Street Jour...

'Are you waiting for Monsieur Bellivier, madame?' Helena should of course say no. She doesn't know the man talking to her, she doesn't know Monsie...

The latest thriller from South America's best-selling crime writer.When a Buenos Aires industrialist is found dead at his home in an exclusive gate...

With The Silence and the Roar, Nihad Sirees writes a powerful, life-affirming and Kafkaesque novel about a censored writer trying to live a normal ...

Murakami's 69, a side-splittingly funny coming-of-age novel set in the Japan of the sixtiesIn a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matt...

I understand why you did it. It'll be our secret. Seventeen-year-old Louise Lacroix is desperate to escape her dreary life. So on her way home from...

During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, an Iraqi journalist is given a tour of a military prison. He is informed by the major in charge about what i...

Commandant Michel de Palma, known by his colleagues as 'the Baron', has chosen early retirement and plans to travel the world. But he is dragged ba...

On the eve of her fortieth birthday Egyptian academic, Professor Hanaa, finds herself alone and unloved. For twenty years she has battled with an i...

You've only been here for a few days but you already know loads of people. You walk into people's lives, just like that. Gabriel is a stranger in ...

Rio de Janeiro. A family hotel whose clients reflect Brazilian society, multi-racial, with starkly contrasting backgrounds, and destitute. Rio is t...

'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de...