Fiction in Translation

A spellbinding story of love and betrayal for fans of Santa Montefiore, Fiona Valpy's The Beekeeper's Promise and Dinah Jefferies. Perfect for book...

'Iceland's outstanding crime novelist' Daily ExpressOn a jagged, bleak lava field just outside Reykjavik stands the Gallows Rock. Once a place of e...

''The rock cast a sharp, dark shadow over a shape huddled on the ground. Please don''t let it be the boy, Colomba thought. Her silent prayer didn''...

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023'A masterpiece . . . I challenge any author to top it!' Sigridur Alberstsdottir, Icelandic Nation...

Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary ...

A Jesuit and an English ambassador make a journey to Petrograd across a gloomy, often desolate eighteenth-century Eastern Europe in order to sight ...

Sonka is the story of an old woman, lonely, forgotten, and shunned by her community, until one day a theater directors car breaks down near her hou...

The rich seam that is Jansson's adult prose continues with this penultimate collection of short stories, written in her seventies at the height of ...

'Folks, life is beautiful! Bring on the drinks, I'm sticking around till I'm ninety! Do you hear?'A young boy grows up in a sleepy Czech community...

The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls a building site beneath the open sky, b...

Eliza Altairsky-Lointaine is the toast of Moscow society, a beautiful actress in an infamous theatre troupe. The estranged wife of a descendant of ...

Petar, a devoted family man, leaves his apartment to buy some coffee and goes missing. While his wife is desperately looking for him, he finds hims...

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all r...

Somewhere deep in the European forest they meet. Frontier workers, smugglers, refugees, workers, asylum seekers, inspectors, artists, musicians, ac...

A family story of epic scale, by the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD and THE BELL IN THE LAKE.An intricate story about war, family, secrets and,yes, wood ...

By Norway''s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale. An intricate story about war, family, secrets an...

Why did the taxi crash on the autobahn in Vienna?Who exactly were Besfort Y and Rovena, the mysterious couple who died after being flung from the b...

After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other lucky girls are sent to work at a posh underground night...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had se...

Nothing could please a chef more than a chance to learn the secrets of a Baron's castle kitchen. Having travelled the length and breadth of the cou...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell an...

I can assure you that no movie will ever achieve the speed of prose. Human beings just haven't realized that yet.--J?rg Laederach. With tongue reso...

German Sadulaev's follow-up to his acclaimed I am a Chechen! is set in a twenty-first century Russia, phantasmagorical and violent. A bitingly funn...

The hilarious second novel from actress and bestselling novelist Alona Kimhi holds up a comically warped mirror to contemporary Israel, as well as ...

Closing the gap between the contemporary Russian novel and the masterpieces of the early Soviet avant-garde, this masterful mixture of prose and po...

New work from the acclaimed author of The Crab Nebula and Palafox.

In this collection of thematically related stories, celebrated Belgian author Fran?ois Emmanuel shows his indebtedness to the great poetic iconocla...

Atavisms is an original and unsettling portrait of Quebec, from the hinterland to the metropolis, from colonial times to the present, and beyond. T...

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the w...

In FICTIONS AND LIES, a writer dies suddenly, in fear of KGB pursuit. His last manuscript, which is thought to be dangerously anti-Soviet, is missi...

An epic and engrossing novel set at the beginning of the twentieth century, THE ODESSANS is the story of three families from Odessa in the Ukraine:...

Harry Hole returns in a pulse-pounding thriller like no other.'This book had my pulse in the red zone from start to finish' Michael ConnellyA freez...

A darkly hilarious tale of a model family's disintegration. Professor Siem Sigerius - maths genius, jazz lover, judo champion, Renaissance man. Wh...

In Italy's impoverished south, choices are limited. Rules and traditions are more powerful than the lives of individuals, and young Italians who st...

A moving love story and a vivid depiction of Berlin in the 1870s, from Germany's greatest nineteenth-century novelist Theodor Fontane.Lene is a bea...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of...

A novel about a mother-daughter relationship that will send a chill down your spine. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mo...

The Scarecrow is the final volume of Ibrahim al-Konis Oasis trilogy, which chronicles the founding, flourishing, and decline of a Saharan oasis. Fi...

'If the antidote to a year of solitude and trauma is art, then this novel is the answer. It is superb SUNDAY TIMES A rare kind of literary celebrit...

Hamburg State Prosecutor Chastity Riley travels to Scotland to face the demons of her past, as Hamburg is hit by a major arson attack. Queen of Kri...

Hornclaw is a sixty-five-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in li...

Gripping . . . everything he writes is thrilling Literary ReviewHits the ground running and never lets up . . . Slick, sick and not for the faint-h...

Nathanael remains haunted by his childhood fear that the lawyer Coppelius, a strange night-time visitor who used to come to his house to conduc...

A seemingly straightforward investigation into marital infidelity leads a PI and his ex-con assistant on a murderous trail, in a sophisticated, riv...

WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARD 2023 FOR THE LAST GRUDGE The chilling new Scandinavian thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, perfect for...