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    Enjoy these books from around the world which have been translated into English for your reading pleasure. Add some international flavour to your reading list.

    Philippe Claudel: Monsieur Linh and His Child [2012] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Traumatized by memories of his war-ravaged country, and with his son and daughter-in-law dead, Monsieur Linh travels to a foreign land to bring the child in his arms to safety....

    Peter Stamm: All Days Are Night [2015] paperback

    €2.99

    Gillian seems to have it all - she is beautiful, successful, and securely married. But one night, after an argument with her husband, their car crashes on a wet road,...

    Slimani Leïla: Watch Us Dance [2024] paperback

    €11.99

    **AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW**'Engrossing.' Mail on Sunday'A powerful and compelling family saga.' CHRISTINE MANGAN'Beautifully atmospheric.' Financial TimesFROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABYMorocco, 1968. The air is electric. Anything feels...

    Amin Maalouf: The Rock Of Tanios [1995] paperback

    €4.99€6.99

    An exploration of myth, passion and loyalty from the Lebanon's troubled past, The Rock of Tanios is another superbly rich and rewarding novel from the author of Samarkand and Leo...

    Laura Esquivel: Like Water For Chocolate [1993] paperback

    €4.99€5.99

    THE INTOXICATING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ABOUT LOVE, COOKING AND MAGIC. PERFECT FOR FANS OF JOANNE HARRIS AND ISABEL ALLENDE.'This magical, mythical, moving story of love, sacrifice and summering sensuality is something...

    Lund Madsen Jenny: Thirty Days Of Darkness [2024] paperback

    €13.00

    A snobbish Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small village in Iceland for inspiration, and then a body appears ......

    Alice Zeniter: The Art of Losing [2021] hardback

    €24.99€40.00

    'Remarkable . . . a novel about people that never loses its sense of humanity.' Sunday Times'A deeply human text about the ghosts of identity and decolonization.' Vanity FairNaima has...

    Helfer Monika: Library for the War-Wounded [2024] paperback

    €18.20

    From Monika Helfer's award-winning, internationally bestselling wartime trilogy, based on her own family. Translated into English for the first time.'We called him Vati, Dad. Not Father, not Papa. That's what...

    Roberto Bolano: Last Evenings On Earth [2008] paperback

    €13.00

    This is the first collection by the universally acclaimed Chilean author to be published in English and it is an outstanding introduction to Bolano's writing. Bolano's narrators are grappling with...

    Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind [2004] paperback

    €4.99

    Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'cemetery of lost books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of...

    Akira Yoshimura: Shipwrecks [2002] paperback

    €5.99€14.27

    In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow...

    Imre Kertesz: Fateless [2006] paperback

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    Gyuri, a fourteen-year-old Hungarian Jew, gets the day off school to witness his father signing over the family timber business to the firm's bookkeeper - his final business transaction before...

    Raymond Queneau: The Sunday of Life [2013] paperback

    €3.99€4.99

    When shop-owner Julia Segovia decides that she's going to marry the handsome if exceedingly young and naive soldier Valentin Bru, he willingly goes along with her scheme. Little does he...

    Alberto Barre Tyszka: The Sickness [2011] paperback

    €4.99

    Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The...

    Alberto Barre Tyszka: The Sickness [2011] paperback

    €10.50

    Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The...

    Jose Saramago: The Stone Raft [2000] paperback

    €4.99

    What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe?In Saramago's fable, a new island is sent...

    Sven Hassel: Monte Cassino [2003] paperback

    €4.99

    The thunder of the guns could be heard in Rome, 170 miles away ...Having survived the horrors of the Eastern Front, the 27th Penal Regiment are posted to Italy. Hitler...

    Jiang Rong: Wolf Totem [2008] paperback

    €5.99

    A Chinese novel about life among wolves on the Mongolian plains.

    Hans Fallada: Alone in Berlin [2017] paperback

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    A tie-in edition of Fallada's best-selling WW2 novel, to accompany the major new film starring Emma Thompson and Brendan Gleeson.Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. When unassuming...

    Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses [2006] paperback

    €5.99€6.99

    Discover a moving tale of isolation and the painful loss of innocence.**NOW AN INTERNATIONAL AWARD-WINNING FILM**In 1948, when he is fifteen, Trond spends a summer in the country with his...

    Jaume Cabre: Confessions [2014] paperback

    €6.99

    Drawing comparisons with Shadow of the Wind, The Name of the Rose and The Reader, and an instant bestseller in more than 20 languages, Confessions is an astonishing story of...

    Stefan Zweig: The Post Office Girl [2009] paperback

    €6.99€12.99

    It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives...

    Stefan Zweig: Chess [2023] hardback

    €13.00

    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin...

    Kerstin Ekman: Blackwater [1996] paperback

    €3.99

    Startling in its revelations, disturbing in its implications - a thriller of gripping intensity and immense literary power. Two violent deaths in the Swedish wilderness; the hurried flight of a...

    Alissa Walser: MESMERIZED Z44 [2012] hardback

    €9.99€14.99

    Mozart's Vienna. A crucible for scientific experimentation and courtly intrigue, as Europe's finest minds vie for imperial favour. In a colourful, chaotic private hospital that echoes with the shrieks of...

    Isabel Allende: In the Midst of Winter [2017] paperback

    €7.99

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** 'In some of the most beautiful passages...

    Isabel Allende: In the Midst of Winter [2017] paperback

    €9.99

    **THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** **The captivating new novel from the multi-million-bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and The Japanese Lover** 'In some of the most beautiful passages...

    Fernanda Trias: Pink Slime [2023] paperback

    €16.90

    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 of...

    Umberto Eco: Baudolino [2003] paperback

    €6.99

    An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of the Rose. Discover the Middle Ages with Baudolino - a wondrous, dazzling, beguiling tale...

    Yukito Ayatsuji: The Decagon House Murders [2020] paperback

    €5.99€13.00

    The Japanese cult classic mystery'Ayatsuji's brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits... Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical reveal' Publishers...

    Karin Fossum: Bad Intentions [2011] paperback

    €3.99

    Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water...

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