Fiction in Translation

The most whimsical, audacious and genial thief in France, Arsene Lupin has baffled the greatest detectives in Europe. Whilst staying with friends, Monsieur Gournay-Martin receives a note from the man himself, stating his intention to rob him of several masterpieces and a valuable coronet. His fut...

Baron Cahorn receives a letter from Arsene Lupin, THE gentleman burglar: master of a thousand disguises, scourge of country-houses and fashionable drawing-rooms, and nemesis of Detective Ganimard. The missive explains that Lupin has taken a fancy to various items of the baron's art and antiquitie...

A deeply personal testament, Altarriba's account of what led his father to commit suicide at the age of 90 is a detective novel of sorts, one that traces his father's life from an impoverished childhood in Aragon, to service with Franco's army in the Civil war, escape to join the anarchist FAI, e...

The 19th century is drawing to a close. Pellegrino Artusi, Italy's first celebrity chef, has travelled the length and breadth of the country compiling his masterpiece, 'The Science of Cooking and The Art of Eating Well'. When Baron Romualdo Bonaiuti invites him to his Tuscan home to compare notes...

In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperately, even as the inevitability of failure and their own sacrifice dawns. Solzhenitsyn's work of historical fiction is a po...

In the lazy month of August, Inspector Montalbano and his girlfriend, Livia, prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them. It is, he assures her, far too hot for anything exciting to happen. But then Livia's friends' young son goes missing, and the couple stumble across a secre...

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off,...

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off,...

Wine and murder - nothing is more likely to rouse Auntie Poldi's love of the chase. Still relishing the notoriety from her spectacular resolution of the Candela case, Poldi is alive to the faintest whiff of criminality. What to others might seem a series of misfortunes - the water supply cut off,...

On her 60th birthday, Isolde Oberreiter - or Aunt Poldi as she prefers to be called - decides that she has had enough. Thoroughly sick of life, Poldi moves from Bavaria to Sicily in order to drink herself to death with a sea view. Aided by her nephew, an aspiring author who is also the novel's na...