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Fiction in translation

Paperback. Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like skills. Half Jewish, half Gentile, a free thinker who slips easily between worlds, Yasha has an observant wife, a loyal assistant who travels with him and a woman in every town. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197609
ISBN
9780141197609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles Dr Mahe caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence - or may destroy him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141394169
ISBN
9780141394169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. The impressively entertaining tale about the frailty of human civilisation by the leading Flemish writer Peter Verhelst, now for the first time in English. Translator(s): Colmer, David. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 125 x 10. .
Publisher
Peirene Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908670267
ISBN
9781908670267
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. Meet the characters from the hit BBC series, Beck. The third book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Series: The Martin Beck Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007439133
ISBN
9780007439133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.34

Paperback. Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social satire. Full of incident, and blackly humorous, Kafka's first novel is newly translated by Ritchie Robertson in an edition that includes a full introduction and notes. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199601127
ISBN
9780199601127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.14

Paperback. Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his mind to quit the police force for good. When an old acquaintance seeks Wallander's help to investigate the suspicious circumstances in which his father has died, Kurt doesn't want to know. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Series: Kurt Wallander. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099571728
ISBN
9780099571728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Groundbreaking translated police thriller that channels the great detective philosophies of Sherlock Holmes and Wallander Series: Inspector Avraham Avraham. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784296933
ISBN
9781784296933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. Translator(s): Reynolds, Sian. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780241258552
ISBN
9780241258552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. Meet the characters from the hit BBC series, Beck. The second book in the classic Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s - the novels that shaped the future of Scandinavian crime writing. Series: The Martin Beck Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers New York
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007439126
ISBN
9780007439126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells and body bags. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140455465
ISBN
9780140455465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
Edition
11th Edition
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540946
ISBN
9780099540946
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

hardcover. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent. Translator(s): Glenny, Michael. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman's Library, Alfred A. Knopf
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150667
ISBN
9781857150667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 12.71

Paperback. Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones. The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otake, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and friends. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Yellow Jersey
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224078184
ISBN
9780224078184
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.60

Paperback. Editor(s): Pearson, Roger. Translator(s): Walton, Thomas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536917
ISBN
9780199536917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.33

Hardback. Translator(s): Lovell, Julia. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 184 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231160902
ISBN
9780231160902
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 21.44

Paperback. The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving from Pavlov's own traumatic experience as a conscript in the Soviet Union, it follows the ordeals of Matiushin, a sensitive, disoriented young man, damaged by brutality first within his family and then the army. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 196 x 16. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
And Other Stories
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276360
ISBN
9781908276360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. Translator(s): Szirtes, George. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781256244
ISBN
9781781256244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 107 x 13. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Classics
Number of pages
224
Publication date
1972
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553213690
ISBN
9780553213690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.99
€ 7.67

Paperback. This new translation includes Kafka's most famous story, The Metamorphosis, together with two other stories, The Judgement and In the Penal Colony, and Meditation and the autobiographical Letter to his Father. The edition includes a detailed introduction, notes, and other helpful items. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Critical ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199238552
ISBN
9780199238552
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Translator(s): Appelbaum, Stanley. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 7. Weight in Grams: 84. Series: Dover Thrift S. 96 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 7. Weight: 88. Translator(s): Appelbaum, Stanley.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486290300
ISBN
9780486290300
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.12

Paperback. "This fine version, with David Cronenberg's inspired introduction and the new translator's beguiling afterword, is, I suspect, the most disturbing though the most comforting of all so far; others will follow, but don't hesitate: this is the transforming text for you."-Richard Howard Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 139 x 8. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393347098
ISBN
9780393347098
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.08

Paperback. Mia Holl lives in a state governed by The Method, where good health is the highest duty of the citizen. Everyone must submit medical data and sleep records to the authorities on a monthly basis, and regular exercise is mandatory. Mia is young and beautiful, a successful scientist who is obedient but with an intellect that marks her as subversive. Translator(s): Spencer, Sally-Ann. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099551768
ISBN
9780099551768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. A hitman. A journalist. A family torn apart. Can he uncover the truth before it's too late? The Mine is a gripping, beautifully written, terrifying and explosive thriller by the King of Helsinki Noir. Translator(s): Hackston, David. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FH; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Orenda Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910633533
ISBN
9781910633533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.47

Paperback. The fourth Eberhard Mock investigation - Mock tracks a killer with a murderous taste for human flesh. Translator(s): Stok, Danusia. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FF; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848662926
ISBN
9781848662926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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