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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 Bestselling Fiction in Translation

Butter
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Butter
Asako Yuzuki
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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The Three-Body Problem
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The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
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Killing Moon
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Killing Moon
Jo Nesbo
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
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The Kamogawa Food Detectives
Hisashi Kashiwai
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I Who Have Never Known Men
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I Who Have Never Known Men
Jacqueline Harpman
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No Longer Human
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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
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My Brilliant Friend
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
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Tales from the Cafe
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Tales from the Cafe
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Tokyo Express
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Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
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Convenience Store Woman
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
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Tender is the Flesh
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Tender is the Flesh
Sarah Moses
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Greek Lessons
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Greek Lessons
Han Kang
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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
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The Girl in the Eagle's Talons
Karin Smirnoff
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Kairos
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Kairos
Jenny Erpenbeck
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The Outsider
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The Outsider
Albert Camus
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White Nights
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White Nights
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Our Best New Fiction in Translation 

The Noh Mask Murder
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The Noh Mask Murder
Akimitsu Takagi
£9.99
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The Hole
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The Hole
Hiroko Oyamada
£12.99
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder
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Honeybees and Distant Thunder
Riku Onda
£9.99   £8.49
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The Wolf
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The Wolf
Samuel Bjork
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Golden Age
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Golden Age
Wang Xiaobo
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Overstaying
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Overstaying
Ariane Koch
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An Astronomer in Love
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An Astronomer in Love
Antoine Laurain
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The Mirror of Simple Souls
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The Mirror of Simple Souls
Aline Kiner
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee
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The Short End of the Sonnenallee
Thomas Brussig
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A Perfect Day to be Alone
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A Perfect Day to be Alone
Nanae Aoyama
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The Hunting Gun
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The Hunting Gun
Yasushi Inoue
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The Sea Cemetery
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The Sea Cemetery
Aslak Nore
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And Time Was No More
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And Time Was No More
Teffi
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Ada's Realm
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Ada's Realm
Sharon Dodua Otoo
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Hidden Faces
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Hidden Faces
Salvador Dalí
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Austral
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Austral
Carlos Fonseca
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The Villain's Dance
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The Villain's Dance
Fiston Mwanza Mujila
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On the Horizon - The Biggest Translated Fiction for 2024

Before We Forget Kindness
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Before We Forget Kindness
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
£10.99
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Thirty Days of Darkness
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Thirty Days of Darkness
Jenny Lund Madsen
£9.99
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Roman Stories
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Roman Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri
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Family and Borghesia
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Family and Borghesia
Natalia Ginzburg
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The Prey
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The Prey
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
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The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
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The New Seoul Park Jelly Massacre
Yeeun Cho
£14.99
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The Colonel and the Eunuch
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The Colonel and the Eunuch
Mai Jia
£20.00
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Bad Habit
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Bad Habit
Alana S. Portero
£16.99
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Neighborhood Story, Vol. 2
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Neighborhood Story, Vol. 2
Ai Yazawa
£19.99
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Comedy in a Minor Key
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Comedy in a Minor Key
Hans Keilson
£9.99
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Toxic
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Toxic
Helga Flatland
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Playboy
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Playboy
Constance Debré
£10.99
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Wound
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Wound
Oksana Vasyakina
£10.99
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Butterfly of Dinard
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Butterfly of Dinard
Eugenio Montale
£15.99
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The Willow and Other Stories
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The Willow and Other Stories
Anton Chekhov
£8.99
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The Last Dream
The Last Dream: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Pedro Almodovar, Frank Wynne
£16.99
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An electrifying mix of autofiction, comedy, parody, pastiche and gothic, this captivating collection of short stories from the iconic Spanish director mines themes of desire, mortality and creativity with Almodóvar's signature wit and playfulness.
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Our Best Crime in Translation Books

Tokyo Express
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Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
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The Memory Police
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
£9.99
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The Enigma of Room 622
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The Enigma of Room 622
Joël Dicker
£9.99
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Red Queen
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Red Queen
Juan Gómez-Jurado
£9.99
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The Meiji Guillotine Murders
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The Meiji Guillotine Murders
Futaro Yamada
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The Mill House Murders
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The Mill House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
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The Mirror Man
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The Mirror Man
Lars Kepler
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The Anomaly
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The Anomaly
Herve Le Tellier
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Riccardino
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Riccardino
Andrea Camilleri
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Maigret's Revolver
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Maigret's Revolver
Georges Simenon
£9.99
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Lady Joker: Volume 2
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Lady Joker: Volume 2
Kaoru Takamura
£9.99
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Three Assassins
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Three Assassins
Kotaro Isaka
£9.99
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The Mantis
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The Mantis
Kotaro Isaka
£18.99
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Roseanna
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Roseanna
Maj Sjöwall
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The Prey
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The Prey
Yrsa Sigurdardottir
£20.00
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The Birthday Party
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The Birthday Party
Laurent Mauvignier
£16.99
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The Second Life of Inspector Canessa
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The Second Life of Inspector Canessa
Roberto Perrone
£9.99
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Out
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Natsuo Kirino
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Our Best Modern Classics in Translation

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
£9.99
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
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My Brilliant Friend
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My Brilliant Friend
Elena Ferrante
£9.99
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
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Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum
£14.99
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Convenience Store Woman
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
£9.99
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Minor Detail
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Minor Detail
Adania Shibli
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Time Shelter
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Time Shelter
Georgi Gospodinov
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All The Lovers In The Night
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All The Lovers In The Night
Mieko Kawakami
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Mariana Enriquez
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Irene Solà
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The Discomfort of Evening
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The Discomfort of Evening
Lucas Rijneveld
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Boulder
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Boulder
Eva Baltasar
£11.99
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The Wind Knows My Name
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The Wind Knows My Name
Isabel Allende
£18.99
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Tomb of Sand
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Tomb of Sand
Geetanjali Shree
£15.99
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Cheri
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Colette
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In Case of Loss
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In Case of Loss
Lutz Seiler
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Penguin Clothbound Classics in Translation

White Nights
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Snow Country
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Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata
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The Outsider
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The Outsider
Albert Camus
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Chess
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Chess
Stefan Zweig
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The Fall
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The Fall
Albert Camus
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Hell Screen
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Hell Screen
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
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About Love
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About Love
Anton Chekhov
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My Friend Maigret
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My Friend Maigret
Georges Simenon
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Moonlight
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Moonlight
Siân Miles
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Territory of Light
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Territory of Light
Yuko Tsushima
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The Imitation of the Rose
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The Imitation of the Rose
Clarice Lispector
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Our Best Classics in Translation

The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
£9.99
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Anna Karenina
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
£9.99
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The Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom of the Opera
Gaston LeRoux
£9.99
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Don Quixote
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Don Quixote
Miguel Cervantes
£10.99
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Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
£8.99
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Candide, or Optimism
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Candide, or Optimism
Francois Voltaire
£7.99
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Germinal
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Germinal
Roger Pearson
£9.99
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Les Miserables
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
£14.99
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Eugene Onegin
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Eugene Onegin
Alexander Pushkin
£10.99
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Fathers and Sons
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Fathers and Sons
Ivan Turgenev
£9.99
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Madame Bovary
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
£9.99
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The Three Musketeers
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The Three Musketeers
Alexandre Dumas
£9.99
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Les Miserables
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Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
£12.99
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Before We Forget Kindness
Before We Forget Kindness: Signed Bookplate Edition (Hardback)
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
£14.99
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In the fifth book in the sensational Before the Coffee Gets Cold series translated from Japanese, the mysterious café where customers arrive hoping to travel back in time welcomes four new guests.
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Our Best Japanese Fiction Books

Before the Coffee Gets Cold
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Toshikazu Kawaguchi
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
£10.99   £9.49
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No Longer Human
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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
£10.99
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Norwegian Wood
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
£9.99
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Before Your Memory Fades
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Before Your Memory Fades
Toshikazu Kawaguchi
£9.99   £8.49
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Tokyo Express
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Tokyo Express
Seicho Matsumoto
£9.99
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Convenience Store Woman
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Convenience Store Woman
Sayaka Murata
£9.99
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Breasts and Eggs
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Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
£9.99
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The Guest Cat
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The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide
£9.99
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The Memory Police
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The Memory Police
Yoko Ogawa
£9.99
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Diary of a Void
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Diary of a Void
Emi Yagi
£9.99
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In The Miso Soup
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In The Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami
£9.99
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Kitchen
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
£9.99
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Japanese Ghost Stories
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Japanese Ghost Stories
Lafcadio Hearn
£9.99
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The Frolic of the Beasts
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The Frolic of the Beasts
Yukio Mishima
£9.99
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Botchan
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Botchan
Natsume Sōseki
£9.99
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Beast in the Shadows
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Beast in the Shadows
Edogawa Rampo
£9.99
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
£10.99
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Our Best Korean Fiction Books

DallerGut Dream Department Store
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Miye Lee
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The Vegetarian
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The Vegetarian
Han Kang
£9.99
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
Cho Nam-Joo
£9.99
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Cursed Bunny
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Cursed Bunny
Bora Chung
£12.99
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Almond
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Almond
Won-pyung Sohn
£10.99
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Love in the Big City
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Love in the Big City
Sang Young Park
£11.99
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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
£9.99
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Whale
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Whale
Cheon Myeong-kwan
£14.99
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The White Book
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The White Book
Han Kang
£9.99
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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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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
£10.99
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
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Miss Kim Knows and Other Stories
Cho Nam-Joo
£14.99
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Launch Something!
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Launch Something!
Myung-hoon Bae
£11.99
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Untold Night and Day
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Untold Night and Day
Bae Suah
£9.99
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The Accusation
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The Accusation
Bandi
£8.99
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One Hundred Shadows
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One Hundred Shadows
Hwang Jungeun
£10.99
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Our Best Spanish Language Fiction Books

The Shadow of the Wind
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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
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Signs Preceding the End of the World
Yuri Herrera
£8.99
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
£9.99
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City of Wonders
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City of Wonders
Eduardo Mendoza
£10.99
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Faces in the Crowd
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Faces in the Crowd
Valeria Luiselli
£8.99
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Ways of Going Home
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Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
£9.99
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Fictions
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges
£9.99
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Three Novels by César Aira
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Three Novels by César Aira
César Aira
£15.99
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The Infatuations
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The Infatuations
Javier Marías
£9.99
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Soldiers of Salamis
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Soldiers of Salamis
Javier Cercas
£9.99
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The Shape of the Ruins
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The Shape of the Ruins
Juan Gabriel Vásquez
£12.99
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The Feast of the Goat
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The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa
£9.99
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Pedro Paramo
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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo
£9.99
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The Savage Detectives
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The Savage Detectives
Roberto Bolaño
£12.99
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The House of the Spirits
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
£9.99
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Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor
£12.99
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Such Small Hands
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Such Small Hands
Andrés Barba
£8.99
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Down the Rabbit Hole
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Down the Rabbit Hole
Juan Pablo Villalobos
£10.00
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Our Best Scandinavian Books

A Man Called Ove
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A Man Called Ove
Fredrik Backman
£9.99
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The Summer Book
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The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
£9.99
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Septology
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Septology
Jon Fosse
£16.99
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A Death in the Family
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A Death in the Family
Karl Ove Knausgaard
£9.99
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The Ice Palace
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The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
£8.99
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The Employees
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The Employees
Olga Ravn
£12.99
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Let the Right One In
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Let the Right One In
John Ajvide Lindqvist
£10.99
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Faceless Killers
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Faceless Killers
Henning Mankell
£9.99
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Roseanna
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Roseanna
Maj Sjöwall
£9.99
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
£9.99
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The Wolf and the Watchman
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The Wolf and the Watchman
Niklas Natt och Dag
£9.99
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The Bell in the Lake
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The Bell in the Lake
Lars Mytting
£9.99
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The Faces
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The Faces
Tove Ditlevsen
£8.99
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My Brother
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My Brother
Karin Smirnoff
£8.99
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To Cook a Bear
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To Cook a Bear
Mikael Niemi
£10.99
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The Girl Who Died
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The Girl Who Died
Ragnar Jónasson
£9.99
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A Moth to a Flame
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A Moth to a Flame
Stig Dagerman
£9.99
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The Secret Life of Mr Roos
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The Secret Life of Mr Roos
Håkan Nesser
£10.99
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The Grand Tour: Explore Europe Through First-Class Fiction

The Grand Tour: Explore Europe Through First-Class Fiction

Discover a selection of captivating European novels and novellas - your spellbinding ticket to the Continent.

An Exclusive Q&A with Georgi Gospodinov on Time Shelter

An Exclusive Q&A with Georgi Gospodinov on Time Shelter

The 2023 International Booker Prize-winning author and translator discuss Time Shelter.

Feed Your Wanderlust: Around the World in Fiction

Feed Your Wanderlust: Around the World in Fiction

Fly around the globe on the wings of incredible fiction.

The Birth of a Cult Classic:Ho-Ling Wong on Ayatsuji'sThe Decagon House Murders

The Birth of a Cult Classic:Ho-Ling Wong on Ayatsuji'sThe Decagon House Murders

The translator of Yukito Ayatsuji's The Decagon House Murders writes about the real-life Mystery Club that inspired the cult classic of Japanese crime novel.

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