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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Travel the world with these incredible books, masterfully translated into English.
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, Frank Wynne (trans.)
From the author of Animalia, winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize, a blazing new novel exploring nature, family, and violence, set on a hostile and glorious mountainside haunted by…
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Alba de Cespedes, Jill Foulston (trans.)
A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante.
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Kyung-Sook Shin, Anton Hur (trans.)
A story of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure, Violets reveals the high stakes involved in one woman's desperate search for both autonomy and attachment in an unforgiving society.
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Jenny Erpenbeck, Michael Hofmann (trans.)
From an internationally acclaimed, multi award-winning author: this is a story of love and betrayal set in Berlin during the years before and after the fall of the Wall.
Nanae Aoyama, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)
A Perfect Day to be Alone is a moving, microscopic examination of loneliness and heartbreak. With flashes of deadpan humour and a keen eye for poignant detail, Aoyama chronicles the…
Maki Kashimada, Haydn Trowell (trans.)
Thrilling and poised in equal measure, dealing with the travails of history, with gendered identity, and with the tension between private and public selves, Love at Six Thousand Degrees is…
Jente Posthuma, Sarah Timmer Harvey (trans.)
Shortlisted for the the 2024 International Booker Prize
What happens when the person you’ve built your entire life on is suddenly gone?
This question lies at the heart of Jente…
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Frida Isberg, Larissa Kyzer (trans.)
A debut novel of big ideas, The Mark is about misinformation, partisanship and how societies polarise.
Asako Yuzuki, Polly Barton (trans.)
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story.
Hanna Johansson, Kira Josefsson (trans.)
Elegant, slippery, and provocative, Antiquity is a queer Lolita story by prize-winning Swedish author Hanna Johansson - a story of desire, power, obsession, observation, and taboo.
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Won-pyung Sohn, Sandy Joosun Lee (trans.)
The Emissary meets The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime in this poignant and triumphant story about how love, friendship, and persistence can change a life forever.
Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
It’s not the journey that counts, but who’s at your side.
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Natalia Ginzburg, Angus Davidson (trans.)
‘One of the Great Italian Writers of the 20th Century.’ - The New York Times
Soon after losing her own daughter in a tragic accident, Hon returns to her childhood home in the Korean countryside after many years away. Her father, a cattle farmer, is…
Benjamin Labatut, Adrian Nathan West (trans.)
A Guardian and New Statesman book of the year, now in paperback - the fast-paced, mind-expanding literary work about scientific discovery and the unsettled distinctionbetween genius and madness
Valeria Usala, Katherine Gregor (trans.)
Based on a true story, a tale of generations of Sardinian women searching for independence in the face of prejudice and superstition, for fans of Elena Ferrante
Ia Genberg, Kira Josefssonv (trans.)
A famous broadcaster writes a forgotten love letter; a friend abruptly disappears; a lover leaves something unexpected behind; a traumatised woman is consumed by her own anxiety.
Elisa Shua Dusapin, Aneesa Abbas Higgins (trans.)
Tonight is the opening night. There are birds perched everywhere, on the power lines, the guy ropes, the strings of light that festoon the tent ... when I think of…
Dag Solstad
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room.
Natsuko Imamura, Hitomi Yoshio (trans.)
An astonishing and moving novella about a misunderstood young girl, from the author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt - part of Pushkin's second Japanese Novella series
Selva Almada, Annie McDermott (trans.)
Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada's latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina.
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Maylis de Kerangal, Jessica Moore (trans.)
Eastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him a…
Gabriel García Márquez, Anne McLean (trans.)
The extraordinary lost novel from the Novel Prize-winning author of Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Tobi Lakmaker, Kristen Gehrman (trans.)
A sensation in Europe on publication: an effervescent account of life as a twenty-something in Amsterdam that charts the freedoms and complications of coming out and going it alone.
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Sanya Rushdi, Arunava Sinha (trans.)
In Melbourne a one-time research student with interests in philosophy and psychology is diagnosed with her third episode of psychosis. As she is moved from her family home to a…
Osamu Dazai, Ralph McCarthy (trans.)
Bringing together novelist Osamu Dazai's best autobiographical shorts in a single, slim volume, Self-Portraits shows the legendary writer at his best-and his worst
Yasunari Kawabata, Haydn Trowell (trans.)
Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country
Bora Chung, Anton Hur (trans.)
A woman is haunted by her own bodily waste. A pregnant woman is told she must find a father for her unborn baby or face horrific consequences. A young monster…
Jon Fosse, Damion Searls (trans.)
Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latestwork of fiction by Jon Fosse, 'the Beckett of the twenty-first century' (Le Monde).
Paulo Coelho, Margaret Jull Costa (trans.)
An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery.
By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism…
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Lara Vergnaud (trans.)
The half-million copy bestseller from a young Senegalese star, the first winner of the Prix Goncourt from Sub-Saharan Africa
Witold Gombrowicz, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)
A darkly funny and subversive Gothic horror novel by Poland's greatest modernist.
Im Seong-sun, An Seon Jae (trans.)
Sometimes work can be murder... Squid Game and Parasite meet Dexter in this sharp, satirical crime novel about a murder-planning consultant in corporate Seoul
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Balsam Karam, Saskia Vogel (trans.)
Lyrical and breathtaking, a study of grief, migration, and motherhood from one of Sweden's most exciting new novelists.
Walter Kempowski, Michael Lipkin (trans.)
A bestseller in Germany, Walter Kempowski's autobiographical novel is a sensorial coming of age story during the years of World War II and a chilling exploration of how one family…
Delphine de Vigan, Alison Anderson (trans.)
A cautionary tale for a world in which social media has shattered the boundaries of intimacy
Mathias Énard, Frank Wynne (trans.)
Brimming with Mathias Enard's characteristic wit and encyclopaedic brilliance, The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild is a riotous novel set in western France, where the edges between past and…
Giuliano da Empoli, Willard Wood (trans.)
An acclaimed, bestselling novel - a stunning work of political fiction that reads like a thriller, about the rise to power of Putin's notorious spin doctor
Hiroko Oyamada, David Boyd (trans.)
From the award-winning author of Weasels in the Attic, a modern fable about the world of work
Hiromi Kawakami, Ted Goossen (trans.)
Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth and human foibles meet shifting dimensions of gender, biology and destiny.
Ismail Kadara, John Hodgson (trans.)
A fascinating meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers.
Miyee Le, Sandy Joosun Lee (trans.)
A captivating story that will leave a lingering magical feeling in readers' minds, this is the first book in a bestselling duology for anyone exhausted from the reality of their…
Anne Berest, Tina Kover (trans.)
A moving novel based on the true story of a family's endurance and pain, and a heartfelt exploration of Jewish identity in a secular society
Nino Haratischvili, Ruth Martin (trans.)
The debut novel by international bestseller Nino Haratischvili, author of The Eighth Life, published for the first time in English.
Jhumpa Lahiri
From the internationally bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Interpreter of Maladies comes an exquisitely crafted work of fiction. Jhumpa Lahiri sets her gaze on the eternally beautiful city, illuminating the…
Natsume Soseki, J. Cohn (trans.)
New in Penguin Japanese Classics: Japan's favourite novel about growing up and finding yourself
Maru Ayase, Haydn Trowell (trans.)
A woman turns herself into a forest after long being co-opted to serve as the subject of her husband's novels - this surrealist fable challenges traditional gender attitudes and exploitation…
