Fiction in Translation

It is one of the worst winters Stockholm has ever seen. So when the Swedish Attorney General fails to arrive for a parliamentary debate, the media assume he got delayed by a blizzard. But then the wife of a Danish TV star is found murdered in her home - and suddenly it seems that the cases are co...

Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160. At home her father puts a brave face on things but cries in secret in the bathroom, while her mother rarely speaks and hardly ever leaves the house. To escape this desolate world, Lou goes often to Gare d'Austerlitz to see the big emotions in the smiles and tears o...

When celebrity chef Brede Ziegler is discovered stabbed to death on the steps of the Olso police headquarters it sends a shockwave through the city's in-crowd. Police investigator Billy T. takes on the case, but is met with conflicting information about what kind of man Ziegler was. It seems nobo...

The alliance between ants and dinosaurs created a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it. A satirical fable and ecological warning.

This simple novel tells of one boy's journey into the grown-up world. By the light of a full moon our narrator and his friends Huw and Moi witness a side to their Welsh village life that they had no idea existed, and their childish innocence is exchanged for a shocking introduction to the horrors...

It is Midsummer's Eve and three friends gather in a wood. A hidden watcher soon brings their performance to an end. His approach is careful and his aim is perfect. Three bullets, three corpses. What is the connection between these deaths and the murder of one of Inspector Wallander's colleagues.

Professor Bertram von Ohler has been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. This news causes problems in his otherqise quiet upper-class neighbourhood in Uppsala, Sweden, as not everybody is happy with the choice of winner. Mysterious incidents start to occur. 'Boyish pranks' say the police, but w...

Both mysterious and philosophical, 'Paris Nocturne; is a haunting meditation on the power of memory.

Giorgio, a 22-year-old trainee lawyer, becomes the pupil of Francesco, who exerts a strange fascination over men & women alike, & he teaches Giorgio how to cheat at cards. Their gambling exploits take them from luxurious villas to low dives, their victims ranging from rich industrialists to human...

On a normal day in provincial China, a bored high-school student goes about his regular business. But he's planning the brutal murder of his only friend, a talented violinist. He invites her round, strangles her, stuffs her body into a washing machine and flees town. On the run, he is initially a...