Fiction in Translation

Author: Mircea Cartarescu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A mesmerizing novel about the magical and gritty world of Bucharest in the 1980s by a celebrated Eastern European...

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: 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: Gregoire Delacourt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 What happened to Betty is every woman's dream. Isn't it? There are those who never grow old because they are taken...

Author: Yuko Tsushima Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 The dreamlike story of a single mother and her estranged 11-year-old daughter by Yuko Tsushima, the 'archaeologist of the...

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: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear...

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 The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series When an elegant but nervous woman appears in Inspector Maigret's office 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: 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 Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of...

Author: Georges Simenon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the...

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: 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 Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods, when a visit to a coroner's inquest in...

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: 176 In the penultimate novel in the series Maigret investigates a crime in Paris's seedy red light district The body...

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 A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant...

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: 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: Kobo Abe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A Kafaesque marvel and a biting satire of bureaucracy, medicine and modern life In Tokyo, in the middle of...

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: 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: 704 The latest bewitching, kaleidoscopic novel from master storyteller Haruki Murakami, author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and 1Q84 We...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Cats converse with people; fish tumble from the sky... A bewitching and wildly inventive novel from a master stylist. ...

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: 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: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title...

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: 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: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 A dazzling new collection of short stories from the international phenomenon, Haruki Murakami A dazzling Sunday Times bestselling collection...

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: 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: 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: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Murakami tells the true story behind an act of terrorism that turned an average Monday morning into a national...

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: Jo Nesbo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 Harry Hole and his team are in a race against time to crack the identity of a violent bank...

Author: Haruki Murakami Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Reality bends all the more acutely with lack of sleep in this stunning novel from the master of the...

Author: Roger Pearson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Born to drunken parents in the slums of Paris, Nana lives in squalor until she is discovered at the...

Author: Emile Zola Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 One of the great works of 19th century Realism, and one of Zola's best-known novels Set in the taverns...

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: 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: 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: 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: Leo Tolstoy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'You want to use me to save your soul . . . You disgust me' Serving on the jury...