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.

What connects Stendhal s unrequited love, Kafka s travels, a sequence of murders, the Great Fire of London and a closed pizzeria in Verona?

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 heartbreaking and hilarious novel from the internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious PeopleEveryone remembers the smell of their grandmother's house.

The million-copy bestselling phenomenon: a funny, moving, uplifting tale of love and community that will leave you with a spring in your step.

He is a new kind of human He may mean the end for the rest of us.

A grandson tries to buy the corpse of Lenin on eBay for his Communist grandfather.

When Yuko Moriguchi's four-year-old daughter died in the middle school where she teaches, everyone thought it was a tragic accident.

They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface.

One of the Sunday Times 100 Best Crime Novels and Thrillers Since 1945Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead'Great storytelling, with a creeping sense of dread that would not disgrace Stephen King at his best' Daily MailOne winter morning, in a small town nestled in the Pyrenees, a group of workers discover the headless body of a horse, hanging suspended from a frozen cliff.

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.

'Achingly beautiful' Guardian 'By turns touching and profoundly sad' SpectatorWhen a young, rebellious writer from Leningrad arrives in a remote Russian village to study local customs, one woman stands out: Vera, who has been waiting thirty years for her lover to return from the Second World War.

'A mini-masterpiece'William Boyd, Guardian'Remarkable'Daily Telegraph'Unforgettable'Mail on Sunday'Prodigious'Spectator'Perfect'Daily MailIn a snowbound railway station deep in the Soviet Union, a stranded passenger comes across an old man playing the piano in the dark, silent tears rolling down his cheeks.

"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.

Do you know someone who is incensed by compulsory tipping?

I Am a Chechen!

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

His memory lasts eighty minutes.

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.

*DETECTIVE HOLE IS NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES*Detective Hole returns in a heart-racing thriller like no other.

In Moscow, truth needs a little help from the devil.

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.

We all know what it means these days to be a grumpy old man, because part of that role is to be outspoken.

'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.