Fiction in Translation

A young Parisian lawyer is found murdered, burned alive with a flaming tyre around his neck.For Lola Jost, retired police commissioner, the killer'...

A brilliant novel courageous, necessary and deeply touching GuardianÉdouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the...

Searing . . . Khalifa is a soulful and perfectly unsentimental writer . . . The most amazing thing about this book is that it managed to exist, tha...

Available for the first time in English, Zofia Nalkowska's Boundary was originally published as Granica in Poland in 1935. The modernist novel was ...

The Last Light in Delhi (Dilli ki Aakhari Shama) is the story of the last grand mushaira held in the city of Delhi circa 1845. A cultural document ...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zolas short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and t...

Yamina Taleb is approaching her seventieth birthday. Not that she's sure exactly when to celebrate it, since her Algerian identity papers state a d...

Benjamim, a young man on the cusp of fatherhood, discovers a disturbing family secret: before his father was born, his paternal grandfather had a c...

Godfather of Nordic Noir Kjell Ola Dahl returns with tense, sophisticated, searingly relevant international thriller that explodes the Nordic Noir ...

From the critically acclaimed author of Oblivion comes Year of the Comet, a story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on ...

The prequel to the bestselling Suite FrançaiseParis 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decad...

'For fans of Jo Nesbo and Patricia Highsmith' A. J. Finn, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Woman in the WindowYOU WAKE UP COVERED IN BLOODTHE...

Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprising-...

The fifth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. ...

The seventh book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writin...

'The best Norwegian novel ever' Karl Ove KnausgaardMattis doesn't understand much about the world. He doesn't understand why others call him simp...

The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, in a...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes,...

The ninth book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing....

The final book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s and 70s the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing....

Michons exquisite short narratives transport us to the heart of the Middle Ages as witnesses to the double-edged power of belief   This welcome vol...

After the failed revolutions of 1848, Galicia has been brought under the rule of the Habsburg Empire, and the Zemka family find themselves embroile...

Werner BrA unig was once regarded as the great hope of East German literature-until an extract from Rummelplatz was read before the East German cen...

Growing up in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a young Kurdish boy named Kerim has ample opportunity to witness the murderous repression that defined the era...

The story of an Egyptian farm worker as she tries to come to terms with the difficult circumstances of an arranged marriage which she does not want...

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been...

In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments, ill-...

Animals at the End of the World begins with an explosion, which six-year-old Inés mistakes for the end of the world that she has long feared. In th...

Rebecca's parents were born to very different families. One wealthy, one all but destitute, they were united only by their striking mutual beauty. ...

Set between Normandy and Arizona, In the Gold of Time is a seductive tale of silences and dark, half-revealed secrets, and a haunting elegy for inn...

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreco...

How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? When Chloe's husband leaves her and their chi...

A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work h...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behin...

'For once there had been false idols and asses' heads drawn on the walls...' Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus att...

In contemporary Norwegian fiction Tomas Espedal''s work stands out as uniquely personal; it can be difficult to separate the fiction from Espedal''...

An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a seemingly gentle yet devastating satire of Russia's aristoc...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man...

'The morning became a long, drawn-out afternoon that became depthless night dawning innocently through the house'Tales of desire and madness from t...

White Shroud (Balta drobule, 1958) is considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction. Drawing heavily on the author'...

Dark, disturbing and deliciously twisty, Reptile Memoirs is a biting and brilliant exploration of the cold-bloodedness of humanity - perfect for fa...

'Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things!'Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japan: Nagai's Behind the Pris...

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absur...

One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absur...

'Feels incredibly modern... it is brutal, frank about sex and violence, and will make your flesh creep' Ian RankinA brilliant new translation of S...