Fiction in Translation

Author: Jakuta Alikavazovic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Paul, a student who works as a night guard in a hotel to make ends meet, falls under the spell of...

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona...

Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Sometimes when you go astray and touch bottom, you finally come out on the other side.' Lucie was brought up by...

Author: Bohumil Hrabal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The ten stories collected in this volume demonstrate Tolstoy's artistic prowess displayed over five decades experimenting with prose styles...

Author: Ivan Turgenev & Tatyana Tolstaya (Afterword) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Jay Rubin's translation of Soseki's cherished novel, new to Penguin Classics One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction,...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret struggles to accept an old case whose conclusion still haunts him At a dinner party, Maigret recounts an...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A new translation of this devastating tale of a young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet. 'There was no lack...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An old acquaintance of Maigret's reappears on the streets of Paris and the inspector finds himself caught up in...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- the inspector uncovers some poisonous family politics. The moon must have...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and...

Author: Ann-Helen Laestadius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 **NOW A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION** **THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Written with heart and great appeal' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A coming-of-age-story...

Author: Bernard Minier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 "You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer knows the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve has nothing to do...

Author: Gu Byeong-mo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 She never presumed she herself would live out her natural life, so she wouldn't mind leaving this world through an untimely...

Author: Hiroko Oyamada Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 Two friends meet across three dinners. In the back room of a pet shop, they snack on dried shrimps and discuss...

Author: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's moving and addictive masterpiece of European identity, nostalgia and the end of an era....

Author: Dov Alfon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 From a former Israeli spy, comes the most realistic and authentic thriller of the year. The Times Number One Bestseller Winner...

Author: Philippe Besson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A gorgeous coming-of-age love story about two teenage boys in 1980s France Just outside a hotel in Bordeaux, Philippe,...

Author: Cesare Pavese Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Pavese's seductive masterpiece of memory and betrayal in the Italian countryside, in a vivid new translation by Tim Parks...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'All right, I decided, if I couldn't win tonight, I'd win tomorrow. If I couldn't win tomorrow, I'd win...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit...

Author: Honore de Balzac Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'So many mysteries in one boarding house!' Not everyone who lodges with Madame Vauquer is quite what they...

Author: Bernard Minier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Now on Netflix, the Commandant Servaz series: The Frozen Dead Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month, August 2015...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret has a visitor who admits his intentions to commit murder but when he goes missing Maigret worries that...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...

Author: Hila Blum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A striking and memorable novel. With single-minded intensity, How to Love Your Daughter reckons with parent-child boundaries: the ones that are...

Author: Mai Jia Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Five code-breakers gather in the mountains of China. Which one is a double agent? A World War Two spy...

Author: Ismail Kadare Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 From 'a novelist of dazzling mastery' (Independent) and the winner of the first ever Man Booker International Prize- a...

Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 "Each phase of life has its own love" In these four stories, Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) depicts desire...

Author: Theodor Fontane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Lene is a beautiful, orphaned young seamstress, and Botho is a handsome, aristocratic cavalry officer. They are in love,...

Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 A new translation of one of the most popular satires on the Russian Revolution and on Soviet society -...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Detective Harry Hole finds himself up against a terrifying serial killer in this thriller by internationally bestselling Jo Nesbo...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 A heart-stopping thriller from the international crime fiction star Love twist-filled crime? The Leopard is your next perfect read....

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...

Author: David Diop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Door of No Return, on the island of Goree off the coast of Senegal, is where millions of Africans last...

Author: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Lilach has it all: a beautiful home in the heart of Silicon Valley, a successful husband and stable marriage, and a...

Author: Aurora Venturini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 In 2007, Aurora Venturini stunned Argentine readers when her darkly funny and formally daring novel, Cousins, won a newspaper's award for...

Author: Joel Dicker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A twisting new thriller from the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair In the summer of 1994, the...

Author: Delphine de Vigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 From the author of the Richard and Judy Book Club Pick No and Me. Adults are as lost as the...

Author: Caroline Caugant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Thirty-something Parisian artist Billie is working towards her next exhibition when she receives the news that her mother, with whom she...