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From the latest award-winning international fiction to the ever-green classics, and from the most chilling continental thrillers and masterpieces of Nordic noir to the cult classics of Japanese crime, here you’ll find our bestselling fiction in translation. Whether it’s Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment, an Inspector Maigret classic from Georges Simenon, or Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, these are the stories with which you can travel the world.

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Our Best Fiction in Translation

The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
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The Girl Who Reads on the Metro
Christine Feret-Fleury
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Tales from the Cafe
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Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Convenience Store Woman
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
£8.99
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The Discomfort of Evening
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The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
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The Capital
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The Capital
Robert Menasse
£8.99
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The Alchemist
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The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
£8.99   £7.49
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
£12.99
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A Man Called Ove
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
£8.99
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The Lying Life of Adults
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The Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante
£20.00   £16.99
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Killing Commendatore
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Killing Commendatore
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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Breasts and Eggs
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
£14.99
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The Decagon House Murders
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The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
£8.99
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Men Without Women
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Men Without Women
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa
£8.99
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The Field
The Field
Robert Seethaler, Charlotte Collins
£14.99 £12.99
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The acclaimed author of former Waterstones Book of the Month The Tobacconist sets loose a polyphony of deceased voices as the inhabitants of Paulstadt cemetery reflect on the most crucial moments of their lives.

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Our Best New & Coming Soon Fiction in Translation Books

First Person Singular
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First Person Singular
Haruki Murakami
£16.99   £14.99
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Dostoevsky in Love
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Dostoevsky in Love
Alex Christofi
£20.00   £17.99
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Slash and Burn
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Slash and Burn
Claudia Hernandez
£11.99
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
Joel Dicker
£20.00   £16.99
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Earthlings
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Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
£12.99
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Nervous System
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Nervous System
Lina Meruane
£14.99
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The Faces
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The Faces
Tove Ditlevsen
£8.99
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To Cook a Bear
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To Cook a Bear
Mikael Niemi
£18.99
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In Memory of Memory
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In Memory of Memory
Maria Stepanova
£14.99
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The Lost Soul
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The Lost Soul
Olga Tokarczuk
£16.99
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura
£12.99
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The Invisible Land
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The Invisible Land
Hubert Mingarelli
£12.99
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At Night All Blood is Black
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At Night All Blood is Black
David Diop
£14.99
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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
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The Perfect World of Miwako Sumida
Clarissa Goenawan
£12.99   £10.99
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Stalingrad
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Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
£12.99   £10.99
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Terminal Boredom
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Terminal Boredom
Izumi Suzuki
£10.99
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The Girl Who Died
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The Girl Who Died
Ragnar Jonasson
£14.99
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The Woman in Valencia
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The Woman in Valencia
Annie Perreault
£22.50
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The International Booker Prize 2021 Longlist

I Live in the Slums
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I Live in the Slums
Can Xue
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At Night All Blood is Black
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At Night All Blood is Black
David Diop
£14.99
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The Pear Field
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The Pear Field
Nana Ekvtimishvili
£12.00
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
£12.99
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The Employees
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The Employees
Olga Ravn
£12.99
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Summer Brother
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Summer Brother
Jaap Robben
£12.99
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An Inventory of Losses
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An Inventory of Losses
Judith Schalansky
£20.00
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Minor Detail
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Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
£10.99
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In Memory of Memory
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In Memory of Memory
Maria Stepanova
£14.99
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Wretchedness
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Wretchedness
Andrzej Tichy
£9.99
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The War of the Poor
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The War of the Poor
Eric Vuillard
£9.99
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The Perfect Nine
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The Perfect Nine
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
£12.00
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The Mystery of Henri Pick
The Mystery of Henri Pick
David Foenkinos, Sam Taylor
£9.99 £8.99
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10+ in stock
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An elegant, irresistibly farcical comic mystery based around a library of rejected manuscripts, Foenkinos's playful satire is the perfect feelgood read. An ideal novel for bibliophiles everywhere, The Mystery of Henri Pick| abounds with Gallic wit and charm.

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Our Best Crime in Translation Books

The Survivors
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The Survivors
Alex Schulman
£16.99
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The Other Mother
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The Other Mother
Michel Bussi
£14.99
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The Doll
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The Doll
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
£16.99
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Like Flies from Afar
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Like Flies from Afar
K. Ferrari
£8.99
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To Cook a Bear
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To Cook a Bear
Mikael Niemi
£18.99
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The Reunion
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The Reunion
Guillaume Musso
£8.99
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The Girl Who Died
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The Girl Who Died
Ragnar Jonasson
£14.99
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The Chalk Circle Man
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The Chalk Circle Man
Fred Vargas
£8.99
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Murder in the Crooked House
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Murder in the Crooked House
Soji Shimada
£9.99
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Dregs
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Dregs
Jorn Lier Horst
£8.99
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The Country of Others
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The Country of Others
Leila Slimani
£14.99
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Babylon Berlin
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Babylon Berlin
Volker Kutscher
£8.99
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The Inugami Curse
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The Inugami Curse
Seishi Yokomizo
£8.99
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The Godmother
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The Godmother
Hannelore Cayre
£8.99
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The Chestnut Man
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The Chestnut Man
Soren Sveistrup
£8.99
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Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
£12.99
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Winterkill
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Winterkill
Ragnar Jonasson
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
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The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
Joel Dicker
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Our Best Korean Fiction Books

Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
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The Vegetarian
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
£8.99
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Winter in Sokcho
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Winter in Sokcho
Elisa Shua Dusapin
£9.99
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Human Acts
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Human Acts
Han Kang
£8.99
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The White Book
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The White Book
Han Kang
£8.99
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The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly
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The Hen Who Dreamed she Could Fly
Sun-mi Hwang
£7.99
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The Plotters
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The Plotters
Un-su Kim
£8.99
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Untold Night and Day
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Untold Night and Day
Bae Suah
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The Accusation
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The Accusation
Bandi
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The Dog Who Dared to Dream
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The Dog Who Dared to Dream
Sun-mi Hwang
£7.99
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Please Look After Mother
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Please Look After Mother
Kyung-Sook Shin
£8.99
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Bluebeard's First Wife
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Bluebeard's First Wife
Seong-nan Ha
£14.50
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How I Became a North Korean
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How I Became a North Korean
Krys Lee
£8.99
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The Impossible Fairytale
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The Impossible Fairytale
Han Yujoo
£8.99
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Meeting with My Brother
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Meeting with My Brother
Mun-yol Yi
£17.99
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The Disaster Tourist
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The Disaster Tourist
Yun Ko-Eun
£12.99
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Blood Sisters
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Blood Sisters
Kim Yideum
£11.51
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Recitation
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Recitation
Suah Bae
£10.99
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Our Best Japanese Fiction Books

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Tales from the Cafe
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Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
£8.99
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Convenience Store Woman
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
£8.99
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
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The Travelling Cat Chronicles
Hiro Arikawa
£8.99
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Earthlings
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Earthlings
Sayaka Murata
£12.99
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The Guest Cat
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The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide
£9.99
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Kitchen
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
£8.99
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
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Strange Weather in Tokyo
Hiromi Kawakami
£8.99
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In The Miso Soup
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In The Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami
£8.99
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Tokyo Ueno Station
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Tokyo Ueno Station
Yu Miri
£9.99
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The Last Children of Tokyo
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The Last Children of Tokyo
Yoko Tawada
£9.99
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The Devotion Of Suspect X
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The Devotion Of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
£8.99
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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women
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A Cat, A Man, And Two Women
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
£9.99
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I am a Cat
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I am a Cat
Soseki Natsume
£16.99
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Coin Locker Babies
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Coin Locker Babies
Ryu Murakami
£9.99
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Some Prefer Nettles
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Some Prefer Nettles
Junichiro Tanizaki
£8.99
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Our Best Modern Classics in Translation

My Brilliant Friend
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
£8.99
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The Shadow of the Wind
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The Shadow of the Wind
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
£9.99
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The Outsider
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The Outsider
Albert Camus
£7.99
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
£8.99
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My Name Is Red
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My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
£9.99
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Suite Francaise
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Suite Francaise
Irene Nemirovsky
£9.99
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Labyrinths
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Labyrinths
Jorge Luis Borges
£9.99
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Haruki Murakami
£10.99
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Stalingrad
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Stalingrad
Vasily Grossman
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
£8.99
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Blindness
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Blindness
Jose Saramago
£9.99
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Austerlitz
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Austerlitz
W. G. Sebald
£9.99
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The Tobacconist
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The Tobacconist
Robert Seethaler
£8.99
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Night Train To Lisbon
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Night Train To Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
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Our Best Classics in Translation

Les Miserables
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
£10.99
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Crime and Punishment
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Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
£7.99
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
£8.99
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
£16.99
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Don Quixote
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
£9.99
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Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
£8.99
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Les Miserables
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
£10.99
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Candide, or Optimism
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Candide, or Optimism
Francois Voltaire
£5.99
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Eugene Onegin
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Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
£9.99
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Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
£8.99
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston Leroux
£8.99
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Germinal
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Germinal
Roger Pearson
£8.99
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Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons
Tatyana Tolstaya
£7.99
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