Women in translation
I’m Waiting For You
THE TIMES SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH 'Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art ... powerful and graceful' - Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director of Parasite ...
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
A #1 Japanese bestseller and winner of the influential Japan booksellers' award. Convenience Store Woman with a fantasy twist, exploring emotional and anxiety issues in modern-day Japan.
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Heaven
From the bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs and international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami, comes a sharp and illuminating novel about a teenage boy subjected to relentless bullying.
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A Girl Returned
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Winter In Sokcho
As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman--a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French-Korean author
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The Mad Women’s Ball
For fans of The Doll Factory and The Familiars, a gemlike novel set in a Parisian asylum in 1885 about two women - one deemed mad, the other sane - who find their salvation at The Mad Women's Ball.
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Whereabouts
The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city
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The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
This book is a powerful and evocative literary novel set in Iran in the period immediately after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Using the lyrical magic realism style of classical Persian storytelling, Azar draws the reader into...
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Hurricane Season
An urgent and captivating tale of dark magic and small-town corruption from one of the most thrilling and accomplished young Mexican writers.
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The Impossible Fairy Tale
The Impossible Fairytale tells the story of the nameless 'Child', who struggles to make a mark on the world, and her classmate Mia, whose spoiled life is everything the Child's is not.
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Girls Against God
A genre-warping, time-travelling horror novel-slash-feminist manifesto from the author of the acclaimed Paradise Rot.
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Little Eyes
A spine-tingling portrait of our obsession with technology, from Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
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The Eighth Life (For Brilka)
At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It owes its success to a delicious chocolate recipe, passed down the generations with great solemnity and caution. A caution which is...
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Earthlings
Natsuki isn't like the other girls. She has a wand and a transformation mirror. She might be a witch, or an alien from another planet. Together with her cousin Yuu, Natsuki spends her summers in the wild mountains of Nagano,...
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Minor Detail
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.
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The Disaster Tourist
Yona has been stuck behind a desk for years working as a programming coordinator for Jungle, a travel company specialising in package holidays to destinations ravaged by disaster
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A Winter’s Promise (The Mirror Visitor, Book One)
The absorbing first instalment in the bestselling French fantasy series The Mirror Visitor Quartet-winner of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire.
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The Great Homecoming
Three friends are caught between the warring states of North and South Korea, in this epic novel of love, espionage and betrayal.
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is the South Korean sensation that has got the whole world talking. The life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional...
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The Memory Police
The Memory Police is a beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss, from one of Japan's greatest writers.
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There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job
A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that requires no reading, no writing - and ideally, very little thinking.
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Three Apples Fell from the Sky: The International Bestseller
An unforgettable story of friendship and feuds in a remote Armenian mountain village
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Breasts and Eggs
A strange and beguiling novel about three women struggling to determine their own lives in contemporary Tokyo, from Japan's most exciting young writer, Mieko Kawakami
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One Day I’ll Tell You Everything
The winner of the 2009 European Prize for Literature, this startling and powerful French novel is translated into English for the first time.
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Celestial Bodies
Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel, telling of Oman's coming-of-age through the prism of one family's losses and loves.
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Convenience Store Woman
The surprise smash hit - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
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The Discomfort of Evening
The sensational Dutch bestseller: Marieke Lucas Rijneveld's extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, translated by Michele Hutchison.
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Aetherial Worlds
From one of contemporary Russia's finest writers, a spellbinding collection of eighteen stories, her first to be translated into English in more than twenty years.
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Bright
Explores the quality of human resilience through the adventures of Kampol Changsamran, a young boy left behind by his parents after their break-up --
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Elly
A missing child is a nightmare for any family. But what happens when they come back?
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Dry Milk
Dry Milk is a work of fiction that gives a perspective on Antipodean culture unlike any other, told from the point of view of an immigrant alienated from his new home, both its New Zealand and Chinese communities.
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in...
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The Unwomanly Face of War
'Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that...
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Mouthful of Birds
A spellbinding collection of short stories from the Argentinian sensation Samanta Schweblin
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Adele
Written in prose of elegant - but never bloodless - neutrality, Leila Slimani's second novel published in English explores not so much promiscuity as the modern-day pressures that drive Adele into this perilous loss of self. ...
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Lullaby
The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds.
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Hour of the Star
Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Cola and her philandering rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly and...
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Complete Stories
Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves.
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The Nakano Thrift Shop
A beguiling story of love found amid odds and ends, The Nakano Thrift Shop is a heart-warming and utterly charming novel from one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary novelists.
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Katalin Street
From the author of The Door, selected as one of the New York Times "10 Best Books of 2015," this is a heartwrenching tale about a group of friends and lovers torn apart by the German occupation of Budapest during World...
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The Vegetarian: A Novel
A trangressive, unsettling novel in three acts, about rebellion and taboo, violence and eroticism, and the twisting metamorphosis of a soul
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Flights
A literary and imaginative book that explores subjects such as anatomy and psychology through narratives and reflections on travel and the body, and life and death.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.
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The Pine Islands
The Pine Islands is a serene, playful, profoundly moving story of the transformations we seek and the ones we find along the way.
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My Brilliant Friend
A memorable portrait of two women, My Brilliant Friend is also the story of a nation. Through the lives of Elena and Lila, Ferrante gives her readers the story of a city and a country undergoing momentous change.
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The Emissary
Yoko Tawada's new novel is a breathtakingly light-hearted meditation on mortality and fully displays what Rivka Galchen has called her brilliant, shimmering, magnificent strangeness
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