Fiction in translation

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy, crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it .

'Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing.

A rip-roaring, cosy crime novel, perfect for fans of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and M.

'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves'He hadn't seen her arrive.

A modern classic in Japan on par with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn or The Catcher in the Rye, Botchan is a very popular Japanese novel and still widely read decades after its first publication.

EIGHT STORIES THAT CHAMPION THE SPIRIT OF A SPORT LIKE NO OTHERA young footballer struggles to make his mark even as he fights, the ruthless exploitation of local football clubs, his family s strained financial circumstances and the humiliation of being the son of a man accused of deliberately throwing a winning goal in a long-ago match.

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover.

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'What was he doing there?

Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of Ó Cadhain’s raucous masterpiece Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s irresistible and infamous novel The Dirty Dust is consistently ranked as the most important prose work in modern Irish, yet no translation for English-language readers has ever before been published.

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'One of the great psychological novelists of this century' IndependentThey ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it.

A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSEMeet the Little Prince, a young fellow who hails from a tiny, distant planet.

You'll tell her your darkest secretsSusan Svendsen has an unusual talent.

On 8 March 2008 the Italian performance artist Pippa Bacca set out to hitchhike from Milan to Jerusalem in a wedding dress, documented with a video camera.

The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Li ge, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series.

A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Verweij has been living in Rotterdam, in a street which became a stronghold of friendships for its inhabitants during the Second World War.

Meet Lisbeth Salander, the iconic character who has captivated 100 million readers worldwide"e;Rest easy, Lisbeth Salander fans - our punk hacker heroine is in good hands"e; USA TodayLISBETH SALANDER AND MIKAEL BLOMKVIST HAVE FALLEN OUT OF TOUCHThen Blomkvist is contacted by renowned Swedish scientist Professor Balder.

'An incredible book.

One word binds us all: geography.

'A kind of magical realism for science fiction .

What happens when the cops become the prey?

Acute psychological insight and a distinctive, spare, atmospheric style Simenon ought to be spoken of in the same breath as Camus, Beckett and Kafka Independent on Sunday In this classic novel, a woman s fears for her safety lead Inspector Maigret to a Paris suburb where he uncovers appalling family secrets Barely twenty-eight years old.

A funny and uplifting fable about the journey to learn who we are, from the bestselling author of The Yellow WorldDani has devoted his life to finding missing children.

A darkly humorous reckoning of our modern condition - spam mail, internships, frenemies and hype - and the story of Anna's quest for the meaningful life she knows she deserves.

During the late Middle Ages, conflict raged between France and England as they battled in pursuit of power, the throne and beyond.

Now a major motion picture featuring Berenice Bejo, Dhanush, Erin Moriarty and Barkhad Abdi, in cinemas across Australia 23 November.

Twenty years ago Katherine Neville's groundbreaking thriller THE EIGHT was a global bestseller - a thriller in the style of THE DA VINCI CODE way before Dan Brown ever got there.

Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to kill his girlfriend Germaine.

Written over the course of Fernando Pessoa's life, The Book of Disquiet was first published in 1982, pieced together from the thousands of individual manuscript pages left behind after his death in 1935.

Die hier veröffentlichten Gedichte sind eine Begleitung der bereits vorliegenden Erinnerungen Willi Kollo – VERGANGENES IST NICHT VERGESSEN, und sie ergänzen sich gegenseitig bei der jeweiligen Lektüre zu einem noch tieferen Verständnis zum Leben und zur Lebenszeit des Autors; ereignisreiche Jahre mit zwei Weltkriegen und einer geteilten deutschen Heimat und einer großen Liebe zur Kultur dieses Volkes.

In "Smoothy Zauber: Kreative Mix-Ideen für Gesundheit und Genuss" erkunden Leser die vielfältige Welt der Smoothies, die von klassischen Kreationen bis zu innovativen Mixen reicht, die jeden Gaumen erfreuen und gesundheitliche Vorteile bieten.

"e;A beguiling read .

Rabbi David Small ist nach Israel gereist, um Urlaub zu machen.

'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.

The Queen of Spades has long been acknowledged as one of the world's greatest short stories.

'Neither spoke another word, they were gripped by a shared, unthinking madness as they plunged headlong together into vertiginous rapture.

`To love him was not enough for me after the happiness I had felt in falling in love.

Es sieht so aus, als sei Professor Hendryx von einer Homer-Büste erschlagen worden.

'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.