Fiction in Translation

Isabel Allende / A Long Petal of the Sea (Large Paperback)

 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_______________'A powerful love story spanning generations... Full of ambition and humanity' - Sunday Times'One of the strongest and...

Isabel Allende / City of the Beasts

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Isabel Allende / Eva Luna

 Allende is a wonderful teller of tales and through the story of Eva Luna we enter a sweet but sinister world where fact and fiction merge.     All of our books are second hand, and...

Isabel Allende / Forest of the Pygmies

 From one of the world's best loved storytellers, the trilogy that began with City of the Beasts comes to a thrilling climax.Alexander Cold knows all too well his grandmother Kate is never far...

Isabel Allende / In the Midst of Winter (Large Paperback)

 **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER****The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover**'In some of the most beautiful...

Isabel Allende / Island Beneath the Sea

   From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende's latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a...

Isabel Allende / Of Love And Shadows

Set in a country of arbitrary arrests, sudden disappearances and summary executions, Isabel Allende's magical new novel tells of the passionate affair of two people prepared to risk everything for...

Isabel Allende / Paula

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Isabel Allende / Portrait in Sepia

 Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance.`Portrait in Sepia' is both a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the...

Isabel Allende / The Infinite Plan

  Isabel Allende's powerful tale of one boy's escape from the slums of Los Angeles. This magnificent novel tells the story of Gregory Reeves, the son of Charles, an itinerant preacher. As...

Isabel Allende / The Japanese Lover (Large Paperback)

 From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted, multigenerational love story. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis and the world goes to...

Isabel Allende / The Wind Knows My Name

This powerful and moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea weaves together past and present, tracing the ripple effects of war and immigration on...

Isabel Allende / Violeta

 This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred...

Isabel Allende / Violeta (Large Paperback)

 This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta del Valle, a woman whose life spans one hundred...

Isabel Allende / Zorro

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Italo Calvino / Invisible Cities

  In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city:...

Jean-Christophe Grangé / Stone Council (Hardback)

As a child Diane Thiberge was the victim of an assault. Now aged 30, an ethnologist specialising in the study of predatory animals, and a woman adept in the martial arts, she believes she has at last...

Juan Gomez-Jurado / White King (Large Paperback)

Universo Reina Roja #5 White King Juan Gómez-Jurado, Nick Caistor (Translator), Lorenza García (Translator)     "I hope you haven't...

Katja Oskamp - Marzahn, Mon Amour ( Impac Prize Winner 2022)

A woman approaching the ‘invisible years’ of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR’s largest...

Lars Saabye Christensen / The Half Brother (Large Paperback)

This Nordic Prize-winning novel, a truly gripping epic, relates the lives of four generations of a unique and strange family with touching intimacy and surreal comedy.Traces four generations of a...

Leila Slimani / Lullaby

 WINNER OF THE DEBUT NOVEL OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2019A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYThe baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.When Myriam, a...

Louis Ferrante / Tough Guy : A Memoir by Louis Ferrante

 Louis Ferrante was a young rogue who made his reputation on the streets of New York and later hooked up with the infamous John Gotti Jr and the Gambino crime family. He pulled off some of the...

Mai Jia / The Message (Large Paperback)

A dazzling literary thriller set in Japan-occupied China from the most translated Chinese novelist of our time.China, 1941.At the height of the Second World War, Japan rules over China. In Hangzhou,...

Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo / The Terrorists ( A Martin Beck Mystery)

   Finished just a few weeks before Per Wahloo's death, The Terrorists is the last Martin Beck mystery, a marvelous summing up of the series. The series finale finds Beck attempting to...

Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo/ The Locked Room ( Martin Beck Series )

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Marcello Craveri - The Life of Jesus - HB ( Translation by Charles Markmann) 1967

Places what is known of the life and bioography of Jesus in his contemporary setting and analyzes his life and works according to the interpretation of mystics, rationalists, and mythologists...

Marcello Fois / Bloodlines

When Giuseppe Mundula first sees Michele Angelo Chironi across the corridor of a Sardinian orphanage, the reserved blacksmith realises he has found the son and heir he never knew he needed. And when,...

Marcello Fois / The Time in Between

Vincenzo Chironi sets foot for the first time on the island of Sardinia - 'a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean' - in 1943, a year of famine and malaria. All he has with him is an old document...

Maurice Leblanc / Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief

The year is 1905. Meet Arsène Lupin: a gentleman and a thief.An enemy to the rich and powerful; a friend to the poor - Arsène Lupin will stop at nothing until he gets what he wants...

Mons Kallentoft / The Fifth Season

 It's early May when a young family out on a forest walk stumble upon a heavily mutliated body. The female corpse is in eerily good condition, and signs of torture are all too visible. Inspector...

Naoise Dolan - Opwindende Tijden ( Exciting Times) - Netherlands Edition - PB

Over liefde, geld en het gevoelsleven van drie cynische millennials in Hongkong. Geeft Ava haar gemoedelijke leventje met bankier Julian op voor advocate Edith?‘Opwindende tijden’ van...

Niccolo Ammaniti / I'm Not Scared

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Niccolo Ammaniti / Steal You Away

 Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced...

Niccolo Ammaniti / Steal You Away (Large Paperback)

 Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out to the nearest big town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of boredom and emptiness is almost impossible. Forced...

Olivier Norek / The Lost and the Damned (Hardback)

A suspenseful new police procedural from a former French police officer and one of the original writers on the hit series SpiralA corpse that wakes up on the mortuary slab.A case of spontaneous human...

Orhan Pamuk / Nights of Plague (Large Paperback)

Turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk’s novel is historical fiction set in 1901 during the third plague pandemic. The novel also includes his drawings and hand-drawn maps, being his...

Orhan Pamuk / Strangeness In My Mind

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Paulo Scott / Phenotypes ( Translated by Daniel Hahn)

Federico and Lorenço are brothers. Their father is black, a famed forensic pathologist for the police; their mother is white. Federico – distant, angry, analytical – has light...

Per Olav Enquist / Lewi's Journey (Hardback)

Lewi Pethrus, a humble preacher and unsuccessful writer, and Sven Lidman, a bohemian poet haunted by his failed marriage, lead the Swedish Pentecostal movement from a crumbling renegade congregation...

Per Petterson / Out Stealing Horses (Large Paperback)

Anne Born (Translator) We were going out stealing horses. That was what he said, standing at the door to the cabin where I was spending the summer with my father. I was fifteen. It was 1948 and...

Peter Hoeg / Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

A little boy falls off a roof in Copenhagen and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a...

Piergiorgio Pulixi / The Night of the Panthers (Large Paperback)

Money, sex, and power. Inspector Biagio Mazzeo is the head of a special unit composed cops who have been trained in the investigation of organized crime. He is a kind of father figure to these hard...

Pierre Choderlos De Laclos - Dangerous Acquaintances ( Les Liaisons Dangereuses) - Vintage PB

An epistolary novel chronicles the cruel seduction of a young girl by two ruthless, 18th-century aristocrats. Translated from the original French by Richard Adlington. Originally published 1782,...

Pierre Lemaitre / Alex

Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost -...

Pierre Lemaitre / Alex (Large Paperback)

  Winner of the CWA International Dagger Award 2013. In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are crucial. After that, the chances of being found alive go from slim to nearly none. Alex Prevost...

Pierre Lemaitre / Irene (Hardback)

  For Commandant Verhoeven life is beautiful: he is happily married, expecting his first child with the lovely Irene. But his blissful existence is punctured by a murder of unprecedented...

Pierre Lemaitre / The Wide World (Large Paperback)

Heralding the first volume of THE GLORIOUS YEARS  series THE WIDE WORLD is an epic novel of family fortunes, twisted secrets, and love, from a winner of the Prix Goncourt, and three times winner...

Piotr Sommer / Things to Translate & Other Poems (Large Paperback)

 E. Adams (Translator), John Ashbery (Translator) Piotr Sommer is one of Poland’s leading poets. The translations were made with the help of leading British and American...

Pol Koutsakis / Athenian Blues

The first in the Stratos Gazis mystery series and the first time this Greek novelist is available in English.Stratos hates being called a hitman. A conscientious fixer is what he is. He fixes...

Putu Wijaya / Telegram (Large Paperback)

Stephen J. Epstein (Translator) Putu Wijaya’s debut novel, Telegram , was a literary trendsetter for its synthesis of reality and fantasy. Unapologetically disorienting, the text offers a...

Rainer Maria Rilke - Sonnets to Orpheus - Dual Language Text - HB

From the library of the late writer Seamus Deane, and with his signature to teh title page, no other marks or damage noted.  This reprint published by Hogarth Press UK, translations of Rilke'e...

Robert Seethaler / A Whole Life

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