Fiction in Translation

As the current global recession stubbornly persists and financial experts around the world struggle to prevent further financial collapse, everyone...

Set in Paris during the years of the Reign of Terror, 'The Gods Want Blood' centres on the rise to power of Jacobin sympathizer Evariste Gamelin, a...

In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and lo...

Two hours to get away, 22 more to survive. The sun released its grip on the mountains in the east as they started running. Hunted for their lives, ...

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous o...

n this novel, written by the esteemed novelist in 1901, a provincial composer and organist from Croatia struggles to find his way along the perilou...

Stefan's Zweig's Letter from an Unknown Woman and other stories contains a new translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell of one of his most cele...

The lyrical, bestselling 2014 German Book Prize winner, from the winner of the 2023 Georg Büchner Prize. It is 1989, and a young literature studen...

Finding himself locked in his room for six weeks, a young officer journeys around his room in his imagination, using the various objects it contain...

Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and imm...

One of The Times' Best Crime Novels by Women since 2000 Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga Noren and Sarah Lund iNews ...

This volume brings together twenty of the best stories written by Dino Buzzati - author of the celebrated novel The Tartar Steppe and one of the mo...

Most famous for his twenty-volume dissection of nineteenth-century French mores and society, the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola was also an extremely...

A beautiful homage to the art of reading - light and funny. A celebration of the union of sensuality and language. Marie-Constance loves reading an...

A bourgeois housewife's affair is discovered, and a blackmailer turns her comfortable life into a nightmare of apprehensionFinding her comfortable ...

The Open Door is a landmark of women's writing in Arabic. Published in 1960, it was very bold for its time in exploring a middle-class Egyptian gir...

''Godfather of Swedish Crime'' (Metro), Hakan Nesser, is back with the second installment in the Inspector Barbarotti series, The Root of Evil.July...

The chilling new instalment in the Konrad Simonsen series, perfect for fans of Johan Theorin and Yrsa Sigurðardóttir Sixteen children and four adu...

The Flemish writer Dani?l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them all equal status as, ...

A cornerstone of Swiss modernism, at last available in English translation from one of the great German translators of our time.

Separated by centuries, extraordinary lives intertwine in this award-winning novel of tragic love, political intrigue, and war.In 1995, at the heig...

'A knotty, postmodern tale. The quicksilver narrative slips between dream, memory and reality ... A beguiling enigma' Financial Times 'A poetic ma...

In the court of the King, everyone knows their place. But as the Artist wins hearts and egos with his ballads, uncomfortable truths emerge that sha...

In this, his atmospheric final work of fiction, the Nobel Prize-winning author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich introduces an unforgettabl...

The Darkest Day is the first novel in the five part Inspector Barbarotti series from renowned Swedish crime author Håkan Nesser.Its December in the...

The Baron, bored on holiday, begins a flirtation with a beautiful woman via her twelve-year-old son. He befriends the child and charms him, all the...

Wiola lives in a close-knit agricultural community. Wiola has a black cat called Blackie. Wiola's father was a deserter but now he is a taxidermist...

A MOVING AND COMPELLING EMOTIONAL MYSTERY, BY ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING NEW TALENTS IN NORWAY, PERFECT FOR FANS OF ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE, RACH...

'I was just a regular idiot, a nutcase, a show-off and all that. Nothing to cry about. Seriously' Edgar W., teenage dropout, unrequited lover, unr...

This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds. When Moki returns to his village from France wearing design...

MEET DETECTIVE GEREON RATH IN THE BOOKS THAT INSPIRED THE HIT TV SERIES BABYLON BERLIN Longlisted for the CWA Crime Fiction in Translation Dagger 2...

Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges'' highly influential work-written in the 1930s and ''40s-that foresaw the internet ( Tloen, Uqba...

**Sunday Times Best Books of 2018**Funny, irreverent and scathing GuardianVirginie Despentes is a true original, a punk rock George Eliot ALEXANDRA...

*THE JAPANESE CRIME CLASSIC - ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*'One of the great masterpieces of Japanese crime fiction and one of the must-read books of th...

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

Originally published in Italian as Il Sogno di Walacek by Guilio Elinaudi Editore S.p.A., 1991.

Isolating these moments in his memory and attempting to analyze them much like a lens, he envisions a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only...