Fiction in Translation

2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banville joins the list of distinguished preface writers for Aleksanda...

This volume collects two macabre novellas by one of Israel's greatest authors: The Death of Lysanda, which tells the story of a taxidermist heading...

Twelve stories focusing on the tiny paradoxes and everyday realities experienced by a man in his sixties.

The novels that inspired Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders - the major TV series Rebecka Martinsson: the new Scandi-noir heroine to rival Saga No...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king i...

The Other End of the Line is the twenty-fourth Inspector Montalbano mystery from the international bestselling author Andrea Camilleri, and this ti...

Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity' The Sunday Times'Z...

The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex and procreation, while ...

In 1756 Charlotte Lennox, already a celebrated novelistshe had just published her most renowned work, The Female Quixote, a year beforetranslated f...

''Profane, funny, and uncomfortably honest'' - Brandon Taylor Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love.He is older and beautiful, a Derrida-quoting intelle...

It's a few days before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the...

'A poet's novel, delicate but strong' Hilary Mantel María and her granddaughter Alicia have never met. Decades apart, both make the same journey...

When he was a boy, Aga Akbar, the illegitimate, deaf son of a Persian nobleman, travelled with his uncle to a cave on nearby Saffron Mountain. Once...

The short story collection that launched Tabucchi to fame, reflecting on the uncertainties, memories, mistakes and mysteries of life Eleven short s...

'Askildsen's dry, absurd humour is not unlike that of Beckett... His short stories are packed with irony, and the dialogue is sharp and expressive'...

'A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, our eyes saw things differently' The TimesA private meeting, chance ...

Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity' The Sunday Times'Z...

A welcome volume of stories from Russia's finest contemporary fiction writer, Mikhail Shishkin, full of his typical fusing of mysticism and moderni...

Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, and the grinding struggle to survive against the crushing realities of the Soviet...

'I love the Children's House series and Yrsa delivers again with The Doll. Such engaging characters and a compelling, twisted and creepy mystery -...

A landmark selection of the works one of the greatest Greek writers of the twentieth centuryStripped of their ancestral lands and persecuted by oth...

When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadnt stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his fami...

As the 19th century draws to a close, the politically disgraced Mahmoud Abd El Zahir takes up his post as District Commissioner of the remote and d...

A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation   Modiano at ...

This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over...

SHE'S RUNNING OUT OF TIME Alex Prévost - kidnapped, beaten, suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse in a wooden cage - is in no posit...

The arrival of Augustin Meaulnes at a small provincial secondary school sets in train a series of events that will have a profound effect on his li...

Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwaits pearl-fishing history in this enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, wh...

A series of gruesome murders shakes the city of Casablanca. The killer knows exactly how the police will pursue him and how to obliterate evidence ...

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARDDani Mosca is 40 and his father has just died. Fulfilling his father''s last wishes, Dani embarks on a road trip back...

WINNER OF AN ENGLISH PEN AWARD''Effortlessly readable and fizzing with energy, this novel is by turns quirky, funny and thoughtful''Mail on Sunday ...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourge...

In this trilogy of novellas, Jonas Karlsson explores the quirkier side of human nature, helping us to see the world anew via three eccentric narrat...

Seven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yis unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted b...

Seven stories, seven whispers into the ears of life: A Yis unexpected twists of crime burst from the everyday, with glimpses of romance distorted b...

Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and dest...

This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known col...

This masterful translation of one of the most popular books of world literature makes available to an English readership the animal tales known col...

In the shadows of great wealth, and among Cairos famous monuments, runs a world of street children. Mustafa, a former student radical who never rea...

Tucked away in a rundown quarter, just out of sight of downtown Cairo, a group of intellectuals gather regularly to smoke hashish in Hakeems den. T...