Set in Finland in 1939, this is the story of one man who remains in his home town when everyone else has fled, burning down their...

The frozen body of a woman is found in a fishing ark on the ice near Tornetrask in northern Sweden. She has been brutally...

Set in the Montparnasse district of Paris, the author, Jean, retraces his nocturnal footsteps around the left bank during...

On the far eastern borders of the Soviet Union, in the sunset of Stalin's reign, soldiers are training for a war that could end...

An unforgettable journey through the former Soviet Republics, by a prizewinning author of international reportage

Erika...

In Rituals, Amsterdam of the fifties, sixties and seventies is viewed from the perspective of the capricious Inni Wintrop. An...

Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, PEDIGREE is an autobiographical portrait of...

Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of...

Berlin, Gorlitzer Park: The body of a young woman in a white wedding dress floats in the canal. Who is she, and where does she...

A morose provincial inspector of roads in Aragon settles down to write the fable of the Snow Queen. The Netherlands has now been...

She woke up with a new face. She woke up with no memories. And she woke up to murder...

Not only has Marla Cahill survived a...

In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the...

We’ve all stood on a street corner and let the city’s lights and sounds pass by. What do we hear when we listen to the sounds of...

The launch of a new series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. A murder investigation brings together two unlikely allies in a race to...

Did sex bring down the Iron Curtain? An orphan reflects on the unbreakable bond between love and freedom in the Soviet...

A dazzling novel about the traces we leave, the traces we erase and the traces we seek to rebuild.

In this innovative novel...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?

Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she...

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.

At the beginning of this...

It is the middle of the roaring twenties, and Gittel is living The Hague with her parents, whose blazing rows are the traditional...

The girl with the dragon tattoo lives on.

Lisbeth Salander is an unstoppable force:

Sentenced to two months in Flodberga...

An anthology of contemporary women's short fiction in translation, featuring work by emerging women writers from across...

In Kirkeveien, Oslo, in the year 1956, forty-year-old Maj is worn down by being a homemaker and widowed mother. To the...

Anthony Whitelands, an English art historian, is invited to Madrid to value the collection of a Spanish duke. At a welcome lunch...

Set in the cities and islands of the Mediterranean, and linked thematically, the eight stories in The Foxes Come at Night read...

A relentless deluge lashes the Po Valley, and the river itself swells beyond its limits. A barge breaks free of its moorings and...

A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks...

Kosher sushi, kebabs, a second-hand bookshop and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris is a cosmopolitan district where...

Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition:...

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is...

In the Jin capital of Zhongdu, Guo Jing learns the truth of his father's death and finds he is now betrothed, against his will,...