Fiction in Translation

Unsuccessful in his endeavours, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of F...

'Stunningly moving, beautiful, witty and urbane' Kate SaundersEffi Briest is only seventeen when she is married off to Baron von Instetten, travell...

The magnum opus of 2004 Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelineka spectral journey through the catastrophic history embedded in the landscape of Austria  Th...

A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos.With entries as varied as elbow, Ophelia, progress, the painter Giorgio Morandi,...

Meet Michela - English gangster father, flamenco dancer mother - a hard, uncompromising police officer, operating on the shadier side of the law. I...

Chief Investigator of Nordland Police, Jakob Weber is drawn into a complex case when a teenaged girl goes missing in Northern Norway, and a second ...

A new paperback edition of the acclaimed, bestselling novel - a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to po...

Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow KingEthiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the go...

Astonishing and compelling . . . Impossible to put down Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow KingEthiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the go...

A writer is seized by apocalyptic visions; a voyeuristic marquis commits a brutal act; and a trio of beatniks dance to modern jazz in the ruins of ...

From the author of the international bestseller The Elegance of The Hedgehog comes a mouth-watering tale delving into the life of a monstrous food ...

Hundreds of actors were auditioned, but only two remained. This novel tells the story of the boy who wasn't chosen. It's 1999. Martin Hill is ten ...

A Japanese mystery horror bestseller, revolving around a series of creepy drawings, in which the reader is the detective - from the Youtube sensati...

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker, she is a dutiful wife. But their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, see...

The funny and moving publishing sensation about an unassuming apartment building in Paris Renée is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment bu...

'ONE OF THE FINEST CRIME WRITERS IN THE WORLD TODAY' DAILY MAILTHE BEST NEW BOOKS OUT IN AUGUST i'A knowing, unnerving mystery' The Times'Superbly ...

Meet Sofie. The history of her sexuality begins when she loses her virginity to Walter the recruitment consultant. Naturally, she thinks that thing...

'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The TimesTolstoy's enthrall...

A funny, gripping and perfectly balanced blend of P.G. Wodehouse, Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene IndependentHighly enjoyable read SpectatorAnthony ...

A CHILLING NORDIC THRILLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE GLASS KEY AWARDWhen homicide detective Jessica Niemi is ordered to take leave from work after her...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HUMMINGBIRD'The dawn will still be far away, and you will lift your eyes to the sky, and the sky will be as blac...

'How truth thickens and deepens when it migrates from didactic fable to the raw experience of a visceral awakening is one of the thrills of Tolstoy...

LONGLISTED FOR THE OXFORD-WEIDENFELD PRIZE 2024'I loved it and it had been a long time since I had read anything that gave me such life and joy' Na...

'Platonov is an extraordinary writer, perhaps the most brilliant Russian writer of the twentieth century' New York Review of BooksThe Soviet Don Qu...

'An Aztec West Wing' GUARDIAN'A triumph' FINANCIAL TIMES'A mischievous fantasy' TLS'Glorious' i-DIn 1519, Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his troops...

Candid and unfettered, Sven Popovis Last Night is a playfully existential meditation on youth and the search for the self. Acclaimed in his native ...

Written in 1967-72,The Deer and the Cauldron was Louis Cha's last, and by many considered his best, Martial Arts novel. It is a sprawling work cove...

Barrack Zailaa Rimas celebrated graphic novel trilogy, gathered together and available in English for the first time.Beirut is an intimate and poet...

Calm your mind. Be here, now. Take a breath. And kill.THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER 2.5M COPIES SOLDI didn't kill anyone until I was forty-tw...

The first in a series of witty, philosophical and touching animal novels for adults, which have sold more than a million copies in the Netherlands ...

Mariama Bâs pioneering debut, So Long a Letter, captures the private lives of women in 1970s Senegal.Recently widowed, Ramatoulaye is required to t...

An American woman wakes up alone in a tent in the Norwegian mountains. Outside a storm rages and the fog is dense. Her phone is dead. She doesn't h...

In this collection by a canonical figure in Korean literature, meditations upon life in old age come to the fore -- at its best, accompanied by gre...

THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER'A masterpiece' The Times'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' ObserverParis, 2018. Diégane Latyr Fa...

The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky - film director, spiritual guru and tarot master, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabaron...

A major, never before translated novel by the author of Muj?ng / The Heartless--often called the first modern Korean novel--The Soil tells the stor...

Scrounged from his notebooks and hearsay, this is the story of a schoolteacher named Konrad Z?ndel: a philosopher, a wanna-be writer; scattered, se...

Rochdale is a town in post-industrial Britain, but it could be anywhere on the digitalised, environmentally decimated planet: a place devoid of hop...

A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her ...

A young woman born in the suburbs of Paris - whose skin colour and memories of occasional childhood visits alone connect her to her fathers native ...