Fiction in Translation

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.

Doppler loses his father, leaves his family and decides to move into the woods. When he kills a she-elk for meat, he's adopted by her calf with whom he gradually becomes friends. He names the little elk Bongo. This is a charming, absurd and subversive novel with serious undertones and criticism o...

In the wake of an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake drops suddenly, revealing the half-buried skeleton of a man. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, a heavy communication device is attached to it, possibly some sort of radio transmitter, bearing inscriptions ...

The story of Soviet Babbitt, a hero of industry who presides over an unheard-of increase in the production of sausage. But beside him is the bitter sponger who, consumed with resentment, sees through him. 'Envy' is an anarchic comedy of co-dependency and complete misunderstanding.

Police Inspector Kurt Wallander is a hard-drinking, opera-loving, down-at-heal divorcee, and incomparable cop. As his personal life is falling apart he is confronted with a hideous crime which has devastating repercussions.

'Fair Play' portrays a love between two older women, a writer and artist, as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios, travel together and share summers on a remote island.

A deeply unsettling and disorientating debut novel about obsession, identity and motherhood.

When a serial killer confounds him and his team of detectives with increasingly brutal murders, Wallander must discover how these seemingly unrelated deaths are connected before the killer strikes again.

After a death, a brutal murder and a blackout which covers half the country, Inspector Kurt Wallander is sure that these events must be linked. Hampered by the discovery of betrayals in his own team, lonely and frustrated, Wallander begins to lose conviction in his role as a detective.

This tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrimur, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik.