Fiction in translation

The summary execution of three dealers - one murdered in full view of a police surveillance team - is the signal for hell to be unleashed in France's most notorious suburb. Now there's a new kingpin in charge, using his ruthless teenage enforcer to assert an iron grip on his territory. And the lo...

'The Royal Game' takes place on a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, where an encounter occurs between the reigning world chess champion and an unknown passenger. 'Twenty-four Hours in the Life of a Woman' is the story of a middle-aged English widow who travels through Europe to escape lonelines...

When a condemned man reveals the whereabouts of an unpunished murderer, Chief Inspector Maigret puts his holiday on hold. His investigation takes him to a bar on the Seine where the old crime is upstaged by a killing and Maigret finds a new drinking companion. 'The father of contemporary European...

Deep in mourning, 12-year-old Ana and her neighbours would like nothing more than to turn time around. There's Ana's best friend's mum, who fled, leaving behind a letter her dad refuses to share. There's Ana's own mother, in shock since her youngest daughter entered a lake and failed to return. T...

From the internationally bestselling author of 'The Children's Train' comes an unforgettable coming-of-age novel, set in 1960s Sicily and based on a true story, of how a young Sicilian girl defied centuries old tradition to win the right to control her own life.

Blending personal, historical and fictional modes, this work tells of a search for identity beyond the old stories of patriarchs and plunder. Incisive and fiercely irreverent, it builds to a powerful call for decolonisation.

When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blix's own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could cost him everything. Blix & Ramm are back in a breathless, emotive thriller by two of Norway's finest crime writers.

It's summer behind the Iron Curtain, and six girls are about to swim their way to the Olympics - and a new life. In an unnamed Soviet state, six girls meet each day to swim. At first, they play, splashing each other and floating languidly on the water's surface. But soon the game becomes somethin...

Sitting alone, overlooking the still and blue lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach surveys the men of the hotel bar. She is happily married and has no reason to escape the world she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels here to the island where her mother is buried, and...

For two years, 28-year-old Kim Ayami has worked at Seoul's only audio theatre for the blind. But Ayami has just been made redundant, and thinking about the future feels like staring into the unknown. Open to anything, Ayami spends a night in the company of her former boss, searching for a mutual ...