Fiction in Translation

This is the richly evocative tale of Fabrizio, Prince of Salina, who in 1860 is the last of his aristocratic line, watching and waiting in the mingled splendour, squalor & heat of his Sicilian acres as Garibaldi's landing heralds the start of a new order.

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in 'Faceless Killers', he was a senior police officer, just turned 40, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him, he ate badly and drank alone at night. 'The Pyramid' chronicles the events that led him to such a place.

Anyone who has read 'Epitaph of a Small Winner' or 'Dom Casmurro', his most famous novels, will want to savour these stories - those who haven't, will find them a varied and enjoyable introduction to Machado's work.

This collection of crystalline, bittersweet stories confirms Josep Pla as a master of irony in his portrayal of ordinary lives across Europe between the end of the Great War and the collapse of Wall Street. Like Joseph Roth, the Catalonian author observes and records the pain and resilience of th...

Desperate to gain some experience, 24-year-old Annika Bengtzon has taken on a work placement at Stockholm's biggest tabloid newspaper. She receives a call informing her that the body of a young woman has been found.

With only a pale moon to light their way, three friends row across Dead Water Lake in the middle of the night. But only two of them return. Inspector Sejer leads the investigation when the body is discovered.

Walking through the woods to Lake Linde, Reinhardt & Kristine Ris pass a man who is in a state of agitation. Near the end of their walk they make a terrible discovery: lying in a cluster of trees is the lifeless body of a young boy.

A 12-year-old boy runs into the police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient, was sighted at the scene disappearing into the woods.

A little girl seems to have vanished without a trace. Inspector Sejer is calm and reassuring, but he knows that must find her before it's too late.

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