Fiction in Translation

Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysantheme (1888) enjoyed great popularity during the author's lifetime, served as a source of Puccini's opera Madama ...

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world.The world is this house, ...

While her mother is in the hospital with a grave but unnamed illness, Marina spends the summer with her grandmother, waiting to hear whether she'll...

Gabrielle Levy''s The Insomniac Society is the international phenomenon for those having sleepless night''s everywhere . . . Five people. One thin...

The seas are filled with migrants risking their lives on perilous crossings; Europe is engulfed by xenophobia and fear. In the cities and towns, in...

Áróra returns to Iceland when her estranged sister goes missing, and her search leads to places she could never have imagined. A chilling, tense th...

An insurance mathematicians carefully ordered life is turned on its head when he unexpectedly loses his job and inherits an adventure park with a ...

'One of the best Nordic Noir writers' GuardianA trip behind the Iron Curtain would change their lives forever . . .It begins in 1969. Six young peo...

Years ago, they fled the lake house.Now, the brothers have returned. Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two d...

'in this life, even if you don't ask for much you still end up with bugger all!' In a run-down quarter of Paris, Gervaise Macquart struggles to ...

Sarajevo Firewood, which was shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) award in 2020, explores the legacy of the recent his...

The Madness of Despair tells the story of Maliha, who is living in London with her husband Nafie after an arranged marriage in their distant Arab h...

The chilling new Scandinavian thriller from a New York Times bestselling author, perfect for fans of Stieg Larsson and Jo Nesbo. Praise for Max See...

An unflinching and deeply humane masterwork by a writer of astounding talent and courage.Omar El Akkad, author of What Strange ParadiseMysterious m...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz KafkaMICHAEL KOHLHAAS HAS BEEN WRONGED. HE...

This new selection of stories featuring Inspector Maigret - three of which are published in English for the first time - takes the detective from a...

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just o...

**THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR**Murder. Assassination. Revenge. Discover the first short story collection from the King of Scandi Crim...

A haunting portrait of the starkest meanings of love and family. Stridsberg''s literary talent left me awestruck Kate Reed Petty, author of True ...

'An extraordinary storyteller' Bernardine Evaristo'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Rivière au Sel the wind in its tempe...

Asle is an ageing painter and widower who lives alone on the southwest coast of Norway. In nearby Bjørgvin another Asle, also a painter, is lying i...

Night Hunters, like the previous three Black Forest cases, is hard-hitting and tightly written MARK SANDERSON, The Times Crime Club Oliver Botti...

THE NAIL-BITING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR'Is this the best crime writer in the world today?' The Times'A wor...

A secluded hut in the middle of the woods. A double life that could be his downfall. The Secret Life of Mr Roos is the third Inspector Barbarotti n...

'A thriller dipped in poison... Lebedev shares some of le Carré's fascination with secret worlds and the nature of evil' New York Times An extraord...

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...

'Like Ursula K. Le Guin rewriting The Lord of the Flies for the quantum age' NPR 'Cixin Liu is the author of your next favourite sci-fi novel' WIR...

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name In th...

The third instalment in a prize-winning series charting the rise of the House of Medici as they become Masters of Florence and progenitors of the R...

'A book of deep reckoning' New York Times'Becomes a way of looking honestly at what mourning really feels like' GuardianA man in tumult returns to ...

When her parents die in a car accident, highly talented Austrian physicist Ruth Schwarz is confronted with a problem. Her parents will calls for th...

Ukraine's most famous novelist dramatises the conflict raging in his country through the adventures of a mild-mannered beekeeper. A warm and surpr...

This is one beautiful book.Mia CoutoKnown and celebrated in Brazil and abroad for his novel Resistance , Julián Fuks returns to his auto-fictional ...

''Perhaps the luminous novel is this thing that I started writing today, just now. Maybe these sheets of paper are a warm-up exercise. [...] But it...

September 1905. At the heart of the Ottoman Empire, in the ancient city of Smyrna, Scheherazade is born to an opium-dazed mother. At the very same...

'The interlinking short stories in this collection are fairy tales in the best Brothers Grimm tradition: naïf, magical and frequently veering into ...

THE FIRST NOVEL BY NICOLAS MATHIEU, WINNER OF THE 2018 PRIX GONCOURTNicolas Mathieu's gripping first novel is the story of a world that has come to...

Germany's king of the thriller takes to the skies with a terrifying and twisted new novel. You know your fear is irrational, you've checked the sta...

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.Tracing a circular course that echoes Bachs Goldberg ...

Extraordinary and unforgettable characters WORLD LITERATURE TODAYRich and many layered . . . fascinating CHRISTOPHER MOSELEYWhen Baroness Valtraute...

Lucía and Pablo are Colombian immigrants whove built their lives together in the US yet maintain conflicting attitudes towards their homeland and t...

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than bei...

This early work by the landmark Swiss author Robert Pinget is unlike any other he produced over his long career; indeed, there are few books by any...

Svetislav Basaras short fiction plays wild games with time and space while nonetheless keeping one foot grounded at all times in the real-life conc...

  First there was Three Envelopes, critically acclaimed on publication  now the story of Israeli secret service operative Agent 10483 continues in...