Fiction in Translation

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Prepare for a bleak midwinter- Nesb 's thriller sees Detective Harry Hole tracking a professional hit man bent on...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a burglar who he had known for thirty years Set...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth When a...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A well-to-do Paris surgeon and his down-at-heel neighbour become the focus of Maigret's investigation Maigret had questioned thousands, tens...

Author: Jhumpa Lahiri Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Jhumpa Lahiri's rich and varied selection of the greatest Italian writing of the twentieth century, now a Penguin Classics...

Author: Nikolai Leskov Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 This volume contains five of his greatest short stories, including the matchless masterpiece Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the tale...

Author: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In these dark, dreamlike love stories with a twist, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya tells of strange encounters in claustrophobic communal apartments,...

Author: Luce D'Eramo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Lucie was brought up by bourgeois parents as a passionate young fascist. At the age of eighteen, she decides...

Author: Ivan Turgenev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Turgenev s first major prose work is a series of twenty-five Sketches- the observations and anecdotes of the author...

Author: Luo Guanzhong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 A new translation and abridgement of one of the four classical Chinese novels, this is the epic story of...

Author: Alfred Doeblin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann. 'As long as he had...

Author: Gaston Leroux Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's exquisite blend of Gothic horror and tragic romance, which formed the...

Author: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 A brilliantly tense thriller from Scandinavian crime writing superstar Jo Nesbo. Harry Hole faces a new rising enemy. 'A...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Inspector Maigret investigates an attack on a Parisian tramp When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office and...

Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 New to Penguin Modern Classics- a searing novel from Tove Ditlevsen, author of the wildly acclaimed Copenhagen Trilogy Copenhagen,...

Author: Georges Bernanos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In this newly translated classic of spiritual literature, Bernanos considers what it really means to be humble, charitable and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident. A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet...

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: Tarjei Vesaas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 A tale of intense friendship and almost overwhelming grief amongst the frozen fjords of rural Norway. In winter, the...

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: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction. Translated by...

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: Raymond Radiguet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 One of the most startling literary debuts of all time, now in Penguin Black Classics. With a new Introduction...

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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a...

Author: Gustave Flaubert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The story of a life-long infatuation, which is seen by many as Flaubert's masterpiece Sentimental Education begins with the...

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 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 Maigret investigates the murder of a criminal he had known for twenty years. Maigret finds himself back on the...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When a colleague is injured in an undercover operation Maigret takes over and becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly...

Author: Philippe Claudel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The Investigator is despatched to a provincial town to find out the truth behind a disturbing spate of suicides...

Author: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 These short works, ranging from Tolstoy's earliest tales to the brilliant title story, are rich in the insights and...

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: 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: 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 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 a professional gambler is shot dead all except Maigret suspect his mistress is to blame. Maigret is called...

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...