Fiction in Translation

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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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 During a much-needed holiday Maigret pulls a prank on colleague Janvier When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and...

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...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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 When a toy salesman confides in Maigret he quickly becomes caught up in a poisonous feud between husband and...

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: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to...

Author: Giuseppe Catozzella Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A heartbreaking novel, inspired by a true story, about a Somali girl who is willing to sacrifice everything to...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In a dingy apartment on the Passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, Therese Raquin is trapped in a loveless marriage...

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: Roberto Costantini Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Tripoli, 1960s. During the years in which post-colonial Libya fell prey to the sprawling greed of the West, Michele...

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: Mario Vargas Llosa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A wildly enjoyable book; the 85-year-old Vargas Llosa is as sharp and mordantly funny as ever.' - Financial Times Guatemala,...