Fiction in Translation

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this...

Author: Jorge Luis Borges Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Enter Borges' timeless worlds, where the ideal and the abstract challenge reality; where philosophical paradoxes and endless possibilities...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'Casablanca remade Japanese-style'- a moving, thoughtful story of long-lost love and second chances Growing up in the suburbs in...

Author: Hideo Yokoyama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 For five days in January 1989, the parents of a seven-year-old Tokyo schoolgirl sat and listened to the demands...

Author: Peter Stamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Christoph, an older man who is a writer, has a story to share with Lena, a younger woman who is an...

Author: Clarice Lispector Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Clarice Lispector's audacious and haunting last novel, new to Penguin Modern Classics Living in the slums of Rio and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 An impromptu visit to an old school friend in the Vendee draws Maigret into a disturbing local investigation. The...

Author: Homer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 READ THE STORY BEHIND THE NEW BBC/NETFLIX EPIC SERIES, TROY- FALL OF A CITYA stunning new translation of Homer's great...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen...

Author: Natsume Soseki Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Kokoro, meaning 'heart', is a tantalising novel about the friendship between a young man and an enigmatic elder whom...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret is called to testify in court and reveals his doubts on the guilt of the accused Maigret receives...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A visit from an old school-friend leads Maigret to a murderous affair When a long lost friend pays a...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 When Maigret becomes the accused he must rely on his investigative skills to prove his innocence. For the first...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Maigret gets tangled up with some notorious American Gangsters in this new translation. 'You're a good soul, inspector, and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A new translation of this novel set in a tranquil town on the dutch coast, part of the Maigret...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In this cautionary tale a ruthless businessman finally gets his comeuppance When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A gripping novel about the corrupt and avaricious world of politics, newly translated as part of the Maigret series....

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: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Italo Calvino in Collection of Sand claimed that 'the brain begins in the eye'. The essays collected here display...

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: Antoine De Saint-Exupery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 A new translation from master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, The Little Prince is the perfect gift to enchant children and grown-up...

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 Maigret struggles to crack a victim's uncooperative family to uncover the truth behind his murder in book fifty-three of...

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: 160 When a colleague is injured in an undercover operation Maigret takes over and becomes embroiled in the dark underbelly...

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 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: Javier Marias Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 A marriage built on lies, a man with many faces, an unpaid debt to the secret service - rich...

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: Arnaldur Indridason Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'A fascinating window on an unfamiliar world as well as an original and puzzling mystery' - Val McDermid An...