Fiction in Translation

In this utterly remarkable novel Karl Ove Knausgaard writes with painful honesty about his childhood and teenage years, his infatuation with rock music, his relationship with his loving yet almost invisible mother and his distant and unpredictable father, and his bewilderment and grief on his fat...

At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they're the only residents and it's raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive, the sun comes out, and life becomes far more interesting and agreeable. Until, that is, some gypsies set up camp just outside their gated community.

The late 1870s, the Kentish village of Downe. The villagers gather in church one rainy Sunday. Only Thomas Davies stays away. The eccentric loner, father of two and a grief-stricken widower works as a gardener for the notorious botanist, Charles Darwin. But Thomas needs answers. What should he be...

Gabriel Tretjak is a fixer, hired by rich clients to fix their lives, to change fate on their behalf. He does so without moral limitations or scruples. His methods draw on experimental psychology and the latest research into the human brain. His fees are high, but his clients are always willing t...

Meet Erik Winter: a bachelor gourmand with a palate for obscure jazz and Lagavulin - and Sweden's youngest Chief Inspector. Despite his new promotion, it's been a tough year - on the heels of losing a childhood friend to AIDS, he now must contend with he parallel murders of youn British and Swedi...

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, Inspector Sejer is determined to uncover the truth.

35-year-old Laura Hindersten goes to the police to report that her father, a local professor, is missing. Police inspector Ann Lindell and her colleagues can find no motive for the man's disappearance.

In this series featuring Chief Inspector Erik Winter, the policeman investigates the murder of Helene Anderson, whose body was found in a local park. Armed with few clues, Winter soon learns that the young woman left behind a child who may still be alive.

One freezing night in Oslo, Christmas shoppers gather to listen to a Salvation Army street concert. An explosion cuts through the music, & a man in uniform falls to the ground, shot in the head at point-blank range. Harry Hole & his team have little to work with: no immediate suspect, no weapon &...

A woman on the run from her past. A child on the run from reality. A man on the run from himself. These three compelling characters' stories gain momentum quickly, in clear and absorbing prose that plumbs their deepest feelings. Carofiglio confronts the dark side of the human soul in this captiva...