Fiction & Poetry

Fiction in Translation

Bienvenue, wilkommen, and hwan-yeonghada to our selection of new and recommended fiction in translation: your gateway to a world of literature translated into English from languages across the globe. From bestselling Japanese and Korean novels to essential European classics, come here for international stories, made available in the UK through the work of translators.

New & Recommended Translated Fiction

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Under the Eye of the Big Bird
Ten Thousand Miles of Clouds and Moons
The Healing Season of Pottery
The Convenience Store by the Sea
Lexicon of Affinities
Mother River
Strange Pictures
Eurotrash
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The Empusium
Annihilation
The Last Dream
Dear Dickhead
If Only
Mammoth
The Lantern of Lost Memories
I WILL LIVE
Butter
Mina's Matchbox
Silken Gazelles

Strange Pictures

  • Strange Pictures
    Uketsu
    £14.99
    A cult hit in Japan, partly due to the enigmatic presence of Uketsu themself, Strange Pictures is a collection of interc... SEE MORE
    A cult hit in Japan, partly due to the enigmatic presence of Uketsu themself, Strange Pictures is a collection of interconnected stories, all tied to mysteries contained in drawings. Far fro... SEE MORE
  • Strange Pictures
    Uketsu
    £29.99
    Horror writer and YouTube sensation's first full-length novel, 'Strange Pictures'. Can you solve the mystery of the 9 p... SEE MORE
    Horror writer and YouTube sensation's first full-length novel, 'Strange Pictures'. Can you solve the mystery of the 9 pictures where something has gone wrong? SEE MORE

Coming Soon

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We Do Not Part
The Unworthy
The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories
Hunchback
The Image of Her
The Director
Separate Rooms
Hunger
Roadkill
There's No Turning Back
The Café with No Name
May You Have Delicious Meals
Counterattacks at Thirty
Colony
Back in the Day
The Deserters
Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon
One True Word
The Night of the Scourge
A Thousand Blues

Prize Winners

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Time Shelter
The Discomfort of Evening
Tomb of Sand
The Vegetarian
The End of Loneliness
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
Horse Walks into a Bar
EEG
Record of a Night Too Brief
Flights
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Fever Dream
HHhH
Missing Person
Celestial Bodies
At Night All Blood is Black
Satantango
My Cat Yugoslavia
Happy Stories, Mostly
Lullaby

Winner of The International Booker Prize 2024

Winner of The International Booker Prize 2024

Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
£9.99
In this powerful slice of existential fiction set in 1980s Berlin, the author of Visitation paints a strikingly intimate... SEE MORE
In this powerful slice of existential fiction set in 1980s Berlin, the author of Visitation paints a strikingly intimate, haunting portrait of an all-consuming love affair and a society head... SEE MORE

Essential Reading

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kitchen
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Name of the Rose
The Shadow of the Wind
The Savage Detectives
My Brilliant Friend
Kafka on the Shore
Hour of the Star
The Museum of Innocence
Territory of Light
The Book of Disquiet
The Road to the City
The Summer Book
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
The House of the Spirits
A Heart so White
Blindness
Perfume

The Classics

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Macunaíma
The Master and Margarita
Crime and Punishment
Fathers and Sons
A Moth to a Flame
The Leopard
Madame Bovary
Three Summers
Don Quixote
The Count of Monte Cristo
Les Misérables
Anna Karenina
Tale of Genji
Candide, or Optimism
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
The Book of Disquiet
The Adventures of Pinocchio
The Plague
In Search of Lost Time: Volume 1
Lives and Deaths

Japanese Fiction

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Tokyo Ueno Station
Tales from the Cafe
Weasels in the Attic
Mild Vertigo
All The Lovers In The Night
Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
Sweet Bean Paste
No Longer Human
The Bear and the Paving Stone
The Guest Cat
The Memory Police
The Last Children of Tokyo
Where The Wild Ladies Are
There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Terminal Boredom
Woman Running in the Mountains
Breasts and Eggs
Toddler Hunting and Other Stories
Earthlings

Korean Fiction

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The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
Blood of the Old Kings
I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
If You Live To 100, You Might As Well Be Happy
The Proposal
Your Utopia
The Black Orb
Another Person
A Magical Girl Retires
Greek Lessons
I'm Not Lazy, I'm on Energy Saving Mode: The Korean Non-Fiction Bestseller
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories
Untold Night and Day
Cursed Bunny
Another Person
Whale
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Walking Practice
Table for One
Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories

European Fiction

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Standing Heavy
The Melting
The Other Name
The Morning Star
Born of No Woman
Goodbye, Ramona
The Employees
The Faces
The Moustache
The Opposite of a Person
Civilisations
Lie With Me
Crossing
The End of Eddy
Strangers I Know
The Days of Abandonment
The Beautiful Summer
Tyll
Whereabouts
The Dry Heart

The Art of Translation

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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?
Through the Language Glass
Fifty Sounds
Lost in Translation
Languages Are Good for Us
Babel
The Language Game
Translating Myself and Others
Catching Fire
This Little Art
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
Essays Two
The Bilingual Brain
A Little Book of Language
Mother Tongue
May We Borrow Your Language?
Don't Believe A Word