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...

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...

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...

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 ...

'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...

'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, ...

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.

The wealthy, powerful Snberg clan has gathered for a family reunion at a futuristic hotel set amongst the dark lava flows of Iceland's remote Snaefellsnes peninsula. Petra Snaeberg, a successful interior designer, is anxious about the event, and her troubled teenage daughter, Lea, whose social-me...

When a dead man is found locked in the basement of an abandoned house, deep in the woods, there is no evidence of what happened beyond his name - scratched into the wall before he died. The regional police can't find anyone who knew him. But no-one knows the locals like Detective Eira Sjodin. Whe...

Jacques Deza is back in London and once again working for the secret intelligence agency run by his old Oxford friend Bernard Tupra. Deza finds himself increasingly under the spell of his shadowy boss, forced to watch Tupra's collection of incriminating videotapes of important public figures.