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The White Circle

Oliver Bottini

"A fitting and frightening conclusion to a magnificent series" The TimesThe final instalment of the acclaimed Black Forest Investigations brings the series to a shattering close.Louise Bonì, Chief Inspector of the Freiburg criminal police, gets intelligence from an...

Eliete

Dulce Maria Cardoso , Angel Gurria-Quintana

*Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award*Eliete is forty (-something) Eliete has been married to Jorge for twenty years Eliete has an average career as an average estate agent Eliete has a completely normal life Eliete has reached breaking-point Eliete is stuck in...

Between Two Worlds

Olivier Norek

**A Times 19 Best Books of 2024****A Financial Times Best Summer Book of 2024**** A Times 10 Best Crime and Mystery Books of 2024 so far**"A police procedural unlike anything else in contemporary crime fiction" Sunday Times"The greatest exponent of the policier at work...

A Perfect Day to be Alone

Nanae Aoyama , Jesse Kirkwood

The Sea Cemetery

Deborah Dawkin , Aslak Nore

"A windswept, wave-tossed, altogether irresistible novel of literary suspense - I truly didn't want it to end" A. J. FINNThere is no love lost between the Oslo and Bergen branches of the powerful Falck family. So when its steely matriarch dies with no will to be found,...

And the Stones Cry Out

Clara Dupont-Monod , Ben Faccini

This is the story of a child with black eyes that float in and out of focus, a child soft and round, with translucent, blue-veined legs unable to hold his weight, an eternal baby.This is the story of his place in the Cévennes house where he was born, overlooked by...

Before the Queen Falls Asleep

Huzama Habayeb , Kay Heikkinen

*As featured as an editor's pick on Radio Four's OPEN BOOK**One of the Guardian's books to look out for in 2024*"An immersive feminist novel that meshes the personal and political to moving effect" Preti Taneja, Financial Times"A brilliant novel of the Palestinian...

Your Absence is Darkness

Philip Roughton , Jón Kalman Stefánsson

"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods"Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS"A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . ....

The Silver Bone

Boris Dralyuk , Andrey Kurkov

Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion.When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack...

Red Menace

Joe Thomas

"A very early candidate for the crime novel of the year" IRISH TIMESLive Aid, July 1985. The great and the good of the music scene converge to save the world. But the TV glitz cannot disguise ugly truths about Thatcher's Britain.Jon Davies and Suzi Scialfa have moved on...

Farewell Dinner for a Spy

Edward Wilson

"A compelling slice of mid-century espionage that expertly blends history with possibility. All comparisons that will inevitably be made with le Carré are entirely apt" Tim Glister'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent1949:...

Hunter in Huskvarna

Deborah Bragan-Turner , Sara Stridsberg

"Stridsberg has perfected a kind of contemporary fairy tale with a bracing Scandinavian edge, here elegantly translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner" Christian House, Financial TimesA young woman becomes obsessed with her psychoanalyst's daughter. A police officer's...

Nothing Belongs to You

Nathacha Appanah , Jeffrey Zuckerman

"A novel of exceptional emotional force" John Self, Guardian***A Financial Times Fiction in Translation Book of the Year 2023***It's not only grief and loneliness that have tormented Tara since her husband's death. In her, something rises and crests like a wave. As she...

A Fistful of Moonlight

Various Authors

"Tender, terrifying, and heart-rending . . . A must read" GEETANJALI SHREE, author of International Booker Prize-winning Tomb of SandA Fistful of Moonlight is a collection of fourteen stories that explore love, identity, politics, fantasy and a fresh take on an age-old...

The Movie Teller

Margaret Jull Costa , Hernan Letelier

María Margarita, a young woman who lives in a mining town in the heart of the Chilean Atacama desert in the 1960s, has had the gift of telling movies since she was a child.When a film starring Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper or Charlton Heston, or a Mexican feature packed...

Vengeance is Mine

Marie Ndiaye , Jordan Stump

*A GUARDIAN BEST TRANSLATED NOVEL OF 2023**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2023 FINALIST**A WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS BEST TRANSLATED BOOK OF 2023*"A powerful story of mothers and daughters" Guardian"A haunting, mysterious tour de force" Lucy Scholes, Prospect"I was...

The Man Who Loved Siberia

Roy Jacobsen , Sean Kinsella , Anneliese Pitz

Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land.Fritz Dörries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when there were still blank spaces on maps of the world. Travelling alone or with his brothers, he climbed mountains, traversed great rivers, explored remote islands...

A Past Unearthed

Gigi Chang , Jin Yong

Türkiye

Julian Sayarer

"A deeply thoughtful, gripping and scrupulous book told in Sayarer's trademark style from the saddle and the roadside" CAROLINE EDENBy a winner of the Stanford Dolman Award for Travel Writing"The best travelogues should make you question your preconceptions of a place...

The Islander

Halldor Gudmundsson

"An enthralling, heartening study of a man of unflagging interest in life" Independent"A thoroughly researched biography" New York Review of Books"Provides readers of English with a perfect introduction to the life and works of an outstanding writer, one whom everyone...