Fiction in translation

There are those who never grow old because they are taken too soon. There are those who grow old without worries, enjoying everything life has to offer. There are those who desperately try to slow down the ticking clock. And then there's Betty. Betty, who mysteriously stops growing old on her thi...

Bill, a widower and single dad, is in a financial mess with bills to pay when he rents out a room in his apartment to Karla. Karla left home to study law, and to earn some money begins working as a cleaner at the palatial home of Steven and Regina Rytter. But inside their house it is clear that s...

The Woman in the Purple Skirt seems to live in a world of her own. She appears to glide through crowded streets without acknowledging any reaction her presence elicits. Each afternoon, she sits on the same park bench, eating a pastry and ignoring the local children who make a game of trying to ge...

In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, is held captive at the bottom of a vast sand pit where he is pressed into shovelling off the ever-advancing sand dunes that threaten the village.

A small French summer resort has, in winter, become the gloomy scene of a series of murder attempts. While his assistant uses 'scientific' means of detection, Maigret relies on his instincts, which lead him past a succession of charcters to the real culprit.

'X Ways to Die' continues the tense, multi-stranded story which begun with 'Motive X'. It is at once an explosive, high-voltage thriller and a fearless exploration of the darkest side of human nature. To enter Stefan Ahnhem's world, with its interwoven plotlines and sprawling cast of characters, ...

'The Wrong Goodbye' pits homicide detective Eiji Futamura against a shady Chinese business empire and U.S. military intelligence in the docklands of recession Japan. After the frozen corpse of immigrant barman Tran Binh Long washes up in midsummer near Yokosuka U.S. Navy Base, Futamura meets a st...

Waiting by the canal, a young cellist meets a junkie, high and drifting. He gives him twenty krona and they exchange a few words; the encounter is unremarkable. Yet for the cellist - who grew up a poor immigrant in the outskirts of Malmoe, and who lost friends and family to drug abuse, crime and ...

In the days after her mother's death from breast cancer, Oksana, a young queer poet, decides to return her mother's ashes to their working-class hometown in Siberia. It is a journey home that will take her through the raw, almost dreamlike emotions of early grief through to an acceptance of the w...

A rediscovered classic from the author of 'For Two Thousand Years', this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early 20th century. Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania, who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps where he quickly b...