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Travel the world with these incredible books, masterfully translated into English.
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, Sondra Silverston (trans.)
From the award-winning author of Waking Lions and Liar, comes a powerfully compelling novel about a mother who begins to suspect her teenage son of committing a terrible crime.
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Various authors
A Fistful of Moonlight is a collection of fourteen stories that explore love, identity, politics, fantasy and a fresh take on an age-old fairy tale, transporting readers into the heart…
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Itamar Vieira Junior, Johnny Lorenz (trans.)
fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in the Brazil’s poorest region
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Hwang Bo-reum, Shanna Tan (trans.)
A heart-warming story about finding comfort and acceptance in your life and the healing power of books.
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Hisashi Kashiwai, Jesse Kirkwood (trans.)
Tender, heartwarming and deeply comforting, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the start of a beautiful and uplifting series that celebrates the joy of delicious food and good company.
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David Diop, Sam Taylor (trans.)
From the author of the International Booker Prize-winning At Night All Blood is Black: a moving and immersive adventure story set in eighteenth century Senegal
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Kalaf Epalanga, Daniel Hahn (trans.)
An exhilarating debut novel told through three different voices, Whites Can Dance Too is Kalaf Epalanga's reflection on and celebration of the music of his homeland, the intertwining of cultural…
Kang Hwagil, Clare Richards (trans.)
Told in alternative viewpoints, in sharp, intelligent and multi-layered prose, this powerful and necessary novel confronts issues of sexism and abuse on university campuses.
Yuka Ishii, Haydn Trowell (trans.)
Told in a magic realist stream-of-consciousness style evocative of the subtle, wry sense of humour found in the traditional Japanese narrative art of rakugo, The Mud of a Century…
Olga Ravn, Sophia Hersi Smith (trans.), Jennifer Russell (trans.)
My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature.
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Karl Ove Knausgaard, Martin Aitken (trans.)
Two adult siblings learn of their surprising shared history in this searching prequel to The Morning Star, set between Norway and Russia
Banana Yoshimoto, Asa Yoneda (trans.)
The deeply moving new novel from the beloved, internationally bestselling author of Kitchen.
Satoshi Yagisawa, Eric Ozawa (trans.)
The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.
Khaled Khalifa, Leri Price (trans.)
A sweeping tale of life and death, set in the Syrian capital at the turn of the twentieth century.
Leila Slimani, Sam Taylor (trans.)
As she stands at the window, the spring sunshine streaming in, Mathilde reflects on the opportunities before her: it’s April 1968 and Morocco is changing. Looking out at her garden…
Hiro Arikawa, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
Seven uplifting tales of warm, wise and sarcastic cats set in modern Japan through the changing seasons.
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Marijke Schermer, Liz Waters (trans.)
A novel about a marriage torn apart by a violent secret for fans of Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies.
Emilia has it all: a rewarding career as a statistician, a…
Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Geoffrey Trousselot (trans.)
The fourth novel in the sensational 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' series featuring cafe regulars, with the same time-travelling offer, back in the Tokyo cafe - if customers follow the…
Shida Bazyar, Ruth Martin (trans.)
An explosive feminist and anti-racist novel about the importance of friendship.
Lee Geum-yi, An Seon Jae (trans.)
Two women's lives and identities are intertwined - through World War II and the Korean War - revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the…
Wang Xiaobo, Yan Yan (trans.)
This English translation previously published by: New York: Astra House, [2022].
Aurora Venturini, Kit Maude (trans.)
The literary masterpiece of a major discovery in international literature - never before translated into English.
Mieko Kanai, Polly Barton (trans.)
With shades of Clarice Lispector, Mavis Gallant and Lucy Ellman, this late-period novel by the esteemed novelist, essayist, and film and literary critic Mieko Kanai is a disconcerting and astute…
Michiko Aoyama, Alison Watts (trans.)
An inspirational tale of the love, comfort and growth you can find in the pages of a good book.
Cho Nam-Joo & Jamie Chang (trans.)
From the author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982. Eight women. Eight stories. One reality.
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Bruce Fulton (ed.), Kwon Youngmin (intro.)
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupation and colonial era to the devastating…
Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Kim Chi-Young (trans.)
A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy.
Fernanda Trías, Heather Cleary (trans.)
Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolome-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Literature Prize.
A port city is in the grips…
Javier Cercas, Anne McLean (trans.)
The second Terra Alta Investigation - a new crime series by one of Europe's leading writers
Carlota Gurt, Adrian Nathan West (trans.)
An intoxicating story of collapse and survival A story of unrepentant solitude and asks what aloneness truly means-objective reality or state of mind? A blessing or a prison sentence, the…
Clemens Meyer, Katy Derbyshire (trans.)
While We Were Dreaming is an extraordinary coming of age novel by one of Germany’s most ambitious writers, full of passion, rage, hope and despair.
Tezer Özlü, Maureen Freely (trans.)
A lyrical autofictional account of the author's fight to survive depression and carve out her own path in 1950s and 60s Istanbul
Valentin Gendrot, Frank Wynne (trans.), Thierry Chavant (illus.)
What happens behind the walls of a police station? What kind of living does a cop make? And how does a culture of racism and violence become entrenched? Valentin Gendrot…
Magda Szabo, Len Rix (trans.)
By Hungary’s most celebrated woman writer, a novel about how little we understand ourselves, let alone others, and in consequence how easily we fail, or even betray, those we love.
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Simone de Beauvoir, Terry Keefe (trans.)
A captivating novella by one of the most important thinkers, writers and feminists of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir.
Nicole and Andre, a retired French couple, take a summer…
Daniela Krien, Jamie Bulloch (trans.)
In her perceptive and affecting new novel, Daniela Krien explores a marriage where everything hangs in the balance.
Isabel Allende
Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is six years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever-harder to guarantee, Samuel's…
Maryse Conde, Richard Philcox (trans.)
A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Conde follows his journey in search of his origins and mission.
Marcel Proust, Sam Taylor (trans.)
Presented for the first time in English, the recently discovered early manuscripts of the twentieth century’s most towering literary figure offer uncanny glimpses of his emerging genius and the creation…
Hwang Sok-yong, Sora Kim-Russell (trans.), Youngjae Josephine Bae (trans.)
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.
Izumi Suzuki, Sam Bett (trans.), David Boyd (trans.), Helen O'Horan (trans.), Daniel Joseph (trans.)
A new collection from the cult author of Terminal Boredom
Brigitte Reimann, Lucy Jones (trans.)
The first English translation of this stirring novel of loyalty, fear and sibling love, by one of the GDR's most important writers.
Dorothy Tse, Natascha Bruce (trans.)
A professor falls in love with a mechanical ballerina in a mordant and uncanny fable of contemporary Hong Kong.
Riku Onda, Philip Gabriel (trans.)
The Night Circus meets Lonely Castle in the Mirror in this multi-award-winning Japanese bestseller, available finally in an English translation by Philip Gabriel, a translator of Murakami
Domenico Starnone, Oonagh Stransky (trans.)
The extraordinary novel that confirmed Domenico Starnone as one of the greatest writers in modern Italian literature
Yan Lianke, Carlos Rojas (trans.)
The five major religions collide in an exploration of spirituality and gender fluidity in a novel imbued with celebrated Chinese author Yan Lianke's distinctive wit and humour
Sharon Dodua Otoo (trans. Jon Cho-Polizzi)
A playful, immersive and highly imaginative novel with powerful themes of race, the reappraisal of history, identity and feminism - four women in four centuries whose stories all converge in…
Han Kang, Deborah Smith (trans.) & Emily Yae Won (trans)
A powerful novel of the saving grace of language and human connection, from the celebrated author of The Vegetarian
