Fiction in translation

Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail - each with a woman's name.

A magical, mystical novella about the art and power of storytelling, this is Italo Calvino's miniature masterpiece.

In three short narratives, Kadare evokes a defining moment in European history28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds.

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers.

Discover a novel which arose from the author's ambition to invent a hell of his own.

Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one's regular reading.

I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe.

In the bitter cold of Danish Jutland, where the sea freezes over and the Nazis have yet to invade, a young girl dreams of one day going on a great journey to Siberia, while her beloved brother Jesper yearns for the warmer climes of Morocco.

A chilling don't-read-it-in-the-dark ghost story .

From the author of Thirteen Hours - A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pickI'll shoot a policeman every day until you arrest the murderer of Hanneke Sloet.

"Traust du dich, oder traust du dich nicht?

The second of the Black Forest Investigations - "e;Its plot bristles with invention"e; Guardian It has been a long dry summer in the Black Forest idyll of Kirchzarten.

Alle Romane von John le Carré jetzt als E-Book!

A father's worst nightmare - Melchor Mar n's teenage daughter has disappeared.

DI Charlie Lager returns to investigate a long-buried disappearance in this 'atmospheric', 'evocative' and 'arresting' page-turner of a procedural from the new Swedish queen of crime fiction************She must find the truth about Francesca.

'A thriller that lingers in the memory' SUNDAY TIMES CRIME CLUB'Dark Nordic noir' THE i 'A global bestseller' SUNDAY TIMES The award-winning, international bestselling Swedish crime debut about a missing girl, and the detective who must return home and confront her darkest secrets in order to find her - for fans of Susie Steiner, Samuel Bjork, and Lisa Jewell.

The Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Irish Times Book of the Year.

In 1848, the young men of Marstal leave their Danish island town to fight in the First Schleswig War, and the sea begins to claim them.

On 19 August 1936 Hercules the boxer stands on the quayside at Coru a and watches Fascist soldiers piling up books and setting them alight.

An international bestseller and French publishing sensation Consolation is a dazzling, heartbreaking tale of one man, two remarkable women and an unforgettable transvestite.

I Am a Chechen!

Ivan Grigoryevich walks free after thirty years in the Gulag, but freedom feels as strange and fragile as captivity did.

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

Once a successful surgeon, Frederick Welin now lives in self-imposed exile on an island in the Swedish archipelago.

Dr Max Aue, a former SS intelligence officer, looks back on the Eastern Front, Stalingrad, and the death camps as Nazi Germany falls.

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in Bulgakov's allegorical masterpiece of Stalin s regime the devil is making a personal appearance in Moscow.

THE AWARD-WINNING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLERDiscover the heartbreakingly beautiful novel about the intertwined destinies of two friends brought together by childhood tragedy.

Schriftstellerin Erica Falck hat mit ihren Zwillingen alle Hände voll zu tun, seit ihr Mann Patrik wieder im Polizeidienst ist.

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others.

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others.

'How can a whole nation forget about catastrophe?

THE ACCLAIMED FULLY REVISED EDITION OF THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF AND KILMARTIN TRANSLATIONIn the two novels - The Captive and The Fugitive - contained in this volume, Proust's narrator is living in his mother's apartment in Paris with his lover, Albertine.

'There's seven ways to kill a cat.

Written in the last years of Saramago's life, Cain is a controversial and witty story of a wilful, authoritarian God.

Audun is the only one of his family who remains with his mother in working-class Oslo.

Petterson's debut novel, published in English for the first time.

This early work is deeply personal and Jos Saramago 's most autobiographical, following the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family poor, landless peasants not unlike the author s own grandparents.

The novel is set just after World War Two, in a fictitious Germany.

Set at the outbreak of World War I, this classic German novel follows a generation of young soldiers from the classroom to the trenches.

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Every morning H kan von Enke takes a walk in the forest near his apartment in Stockholm.

The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth centuryIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth.

As relevant today as when it was first published, We is the first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World.

'Das Engelhaus' ist das Haus, in dem Tora Otter, dem Leser schon aus 'Hexenringe' und 'Springquelle' bekannt, vom Beginn der dreißiger Jahre an bis in die ersten Nachkriegsjahre wohnt.

Between jobs and feeling financially strapped, gun-for-hire Hannah Nicks takes on an assignment that promises easy money and an all-expenses-paid vacation on the Mexican Riviera.

Behind her mask is a deadly secret.

Talk about lost in translation.

In a time not long from now, the veil between fantasy and reality is ripped asunder-creatures of myth and fairy tale spill into the mortal world.