Fiction in Translation

Maigret investigates the circumstances surrounding the attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a multi millionaire, both seemingly strangers but staying in the same hotel. When multi-millionaire David...

Maigret's integrity is called into question when a childhood grudge conflicts with a new case Charged with the protection of wealthy butcher, Fumal, Maigret is torn between his sense of...

With Paris under siege following a series of murders, Maigret must hatch a cunning plan to lure the murderer out High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people...

A new translation of this devastating tale of a young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut short, part of the Maigret series. Maigret and fellow inspector Lognon...

Maigret is drawn into the sorry tale of a man unable to escape from the dullness of daily life Were these yellow shoes part of the reason Maigret was so...

Maigret takes over as author and gives a rare glimpse into the legendary character's psyche I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself,...

A new translation in the Penguin Maigret series- Madame Maigret takes the lead in this disturbing investigation. When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any...

Maigret grapples with the American justice system on a trip to Arizona The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in the latest addition to the Penguin Maigret series Without the injuries, the man's face would have been unremarkable, fairly young and probably...

Penguin Classics relaunch The award-winning new translation of the great Russian novel.Leo Tolstoy (Author) Leo Tolstoy was born in 1828 in the Tula province. He studied at the University of...

'God's teeth!' Unfailingly exciting and a complete joy to read, this new translation of The Three Musketeers is published to coincide with the lavish BBC adaptation to be aired this...

The first modern dystopian novel which inspired both Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World Special futuristic 3D cover edition! Comes with 3D glasses! As relevant today as when it was...

A superb translation by Michael Hofmann of some of Kafka's most frightening, strange and visionary short fiction After Franz Kafka's death, in perhaps the most important of all acts of...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth inspires respect, but as his circumstances are mysteriously reduced...

Penguin Classics relaunch Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading romances of chivalry that he determines to become a knight errant and pursue bold adventures, accompanied by his squire,...

Master storyteller Michael Morpurgo, author of War Horse, retells one of the world's best-loved books for a new generation A NEW TRANSLATION BY MICHAEL MORPURGO, AUTHOR OF WAR HORSE Meet...

A homeless loner haunted by his past is found murdered in this murky tale When a socially isolated vagrant is found dead in the condemned building where he had been...

An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of...

While on holiday Maigret gets involved in a local murder case Maigret and his wife takes a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to the slower...

Maigret loses his composure when a suspect plots to tarnish his reputation During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When...

An old acquaintance of Maigret's reappears on the streets of Paris and the inspector finds himself caught up in her fate once more Maigret's attitude came as a surprise to...

Maigret takes on a complex undercover investigation in the heart of Paris What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an...

Kafka's gripping work of psychological horror A terrifying psychological trip into the life of one Joseph K., an ordinary man who wakes up one day to find himself accused of...

A new translation of this novel set in a tranquil town on the dutch coast, part of the Maigret series 'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing...

The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of...

New translation by Roger Pearson of the novel considered to be Zola's masterpiece Considered by Andre Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Germinal...

Stefan Zweig's classic novella of obsession, madness and chess In 1941 a cruise ship is heading to Buenos Aires, and on board a group of eager passengers challenge the reigning...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small...

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration of horrific transformation and alienation;...

Architect Carmine and translator Ivana were once lovers. Their child died and their relationship ended but now, decades on, both with marriages and children of their own, they are friends....

Anna, a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl in a small town in northern Italy, after a brief romance finds herself pregnant. To save her reputation, she marries an eccentric older family friend and...

Delia is one of five children, growing up in a poor Italian village. She is 17, and dreams of marrying a rich man; she dreams of a grand apartment in...

The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale - a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and...

In a hushed, Italian town after the Second World War Elsa lives with her parents in the house where she was born. Twenty-seven and unmarried, she is of constant concern...

'The places, events and people are all real. I have invented nothing.' Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s....

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023 In the title work, a loosely autobiographical narrative covers infancy to awkward adolescence, unearthing the moments of childhood that linger longest in...

In a small, inconsequential city in Japan, all that matters to 17-year-old Kensuke Yazaki and his friends is girls, rock music and, to a much lesser extent, school. Told at...

It's a set-up like a video game: two rival gangs fight to death for the control of a Tokyo district. In one gang, six young losers committed only to drinking,...

Over the course of his life, Mr Nishino falls hopelessly in love again and again. One woman is a colleague, another a chance encounter; one is the girlfriend of a...

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their...

Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and...

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised...

PRAISE FOR YUKITO AYATSUJI'S MYSTERIES 'Very clever indeed' Anthony Horowitz 'From the first page you know you're in the hands of a master... Flawless' Ian Moore, author of Death and...

'The solution is one of the most original that I've ever read' Anthony Horowitz 'This book is an unmissable triumph' Tom Mead, Publishers Weekly 'It's a budding Sherlock's dream' Crime...

'A masterly performance' Evening Standard Joseph Roth's dark fable about a man torn between resolve and restlessness in Eastern Europe's borderlands In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Anselm Eibenschtz...

Shiori knows at heart that she's a troubadour. She may be completely tone-deaf, but she won't let that stop her living a life dedicated to music. Even when her dominant...

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window...

Melancholy I-II is a fictional invocation of the nineteenth-century Norwegian artist Lars Hertervig, who painted luminous landscapes, suffered mental ill-ness and died poor in 1902. In this wild, feverish narrative,...