Fiction in Translation

Irene is a fragile woman born to a German family in Romania, who has recently emigrated from her native country to West Germany. Politically and so...

Atala, published in 1801, tells the tragic tale of the eponymous heroine, the mixed-race Christian daughter of a Native American chief, who saves t...

Iraq + 100 poses a question to contemporary Iraqi writers: what might your home city look like in the year 2103 - exactly 100 years after the disas...

The first of an extraordinary trilogy DANIEL MASON, author of North WoodsIn a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fi...

'Lindqvist is Sweden's answer to Stephen King' Daily MirrorThey only stopped watching her for a couple of minutes. That was all it took. It was a b...

'The new Stephen King. Don't miss it' The TimesHe found her as a baby, abandoned in the forest. He saved her life. With her first breath - a perfec...

Michael Harney's translation of Cervantes's Novelas ejemplares is the most authoritative and accurate rendering of Cervantes's classic tales to dat...

The first new translation in over a century of the the brilliant epic novel that inspired Les MisérablesFrom July 1842 through October 1843, Parisi...

THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF THREE SECONDS AND CELL 8 INTRODUCE DCI EWERT GRENS TO THE CRUEL REALITY OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING.'This is cr...

Notes from the Underground is recounted from the perspective of an unnamed narrator who describes himself as sick, spiteful, and unattractive. His ...

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . ....

In Arthur Schnitzler's poignant novella, Casanova's Return to Venice, the famed gambler, adventurer and seducer Casanova has been reduced to melanc...

Parma. A multiple pile-up occurs on the autostrada into the city. A truck transporting cattle skids off the road. Dozens of cows and bulls go on th...

Finalist for the Herralde Novel Prize Two sisters return to the small parish of Tierra de Cha in Galicia after a long absence, to the former hom...

If it ever falls to you, my reader (though God forbid!) to see your name written on a prison wall and followed by the letters 'LYMTL', that will si...

Among Dostoevskys later novels, The Adolescent occupies a very special place: published three years after The Devils and five years before his fina...

On his way back to Russia after some years spent in the West, Grigory Mikhailovich Litvinov, the son of a retired official of merchant stock, stops...

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverTwo young men, Pájaro Tamai and Marciano Miranda, are dying in a deserted amusement park. The st...

A family cloaked in secrets. A beguiling woman. A unique setting. Inspector Bordelli is back to solve one of the most difficult cases of his entire...

The King, young Shah Naser, takes to the throne of Persia at a turning point of history: he inherits an enchanted medieval world of harems, eunuchs...

Original Swedish crime stories from the masters of Nordic noir including a never before published story by Stieg Larsson. Ever since Stieg Larsso...

This collection of Grimms' Fairy Tales features the original stories by which many popular books, movies, and plays were inspired. With stories su...

Hamburg state prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a series of arson attacks on cars across the city, which leads her to a startling and life-thr...

The third novel in a historical trilogy that began with the International Booker shortlisted The Unseen Taken together, Jacobsen has given us an ...

  WINNER OF THE 2016 EU PRIZE FOR LITERATURE One quirk of fate can send life spiralling in the most unexpected direction... A young girl loses h...

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all in the mast...

  The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian...

'A bone-chillingly cool crime debut.' Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the TrainTerrible things happen in Mossmarken. Long ago, the mire welco...

A young mother resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland, as she struggles to keep custody of her son, with devastating results First in the addic...

Tofu peddler Yang Baishun is a man of few words and few friends. Unable to find meaningful companionship, he settles for a marriage of convenience....

Putting dead bodies in the ground for a living could give anyone ideas... Blaise is out of work and down on his luck when a chance encounter with ...

A tale of bohemian youth on the make in Mexico City from a master of contemporary fiction, and a sublime precursor to The Savage Detectives. Two yo...

Composed in French in twelfth-century England, these twelve brief verse narratives center on the joys, sorrows, and complications of love affairs i...