Fiction In Translation

Alberta and Freedom

‘Ahead of her time . . . Like Virginia Woolf, though much tougher . . . A classic’ – Times Literar..

Alberta and Jacob

Book one in a trilogy of coming-of-age novels. This is the story of Alberta Selmer, a young woma..

Among Women Only

In this classic, published just months before Pavese's suicide in 1950, a successful couturier retur..

Angels On The Head Of A Pin

Voted one of the ten best Russian novels of the twentieth century.Angels on the Head of a Pin is set..

Apothecary Melchior And The Ghost Of Rataskaevu Street

Tallinn, Estonia, 1419. Within days of each other a prostitute and a tower watchman are found dead. ..

Apothecary Melchior And The Mystery Of St Olafs Church

The Apothecary Melchior series plunges the reader into 15th century Tallinn when Estonia is at the e..

Birdbrain

From the author of Not Before Sundown (Troll – A Love Story) comes an eco-thriller about a young Fin..

Burning Cities

May 2018Part of the Peter Owen World Series: BalticsBurning Cities is a poetic historical saga by Es..

Byron and the Beauty

From Istros Books Byron and the Beauty is a work of historical fiction based on Lord Byron's b..

Confessions Of A Mask

Regarded as Mishima’s finest book, Confessions of a Mask is the story of a Japanese boy’s devel..

Confessions of a Mask (Cased Classics)

November 2020, available to pre-orderPeter Owen Cased ClassicsYukio Mishima's classic work, Confessi..

Cuore: The Heart of a Boy

Since its first publication, Cuore has become required reading for generations of Italians, being re..

Dan Yack

Dan Yack is an eccentric English millionaire shipowner, a notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all..

Darkness and Company

May 2018Part of the Peter Owen World Series: Baltics Lithuania, 1941, Vincentas has made a Fausti..

Diary of a Short-Sighted Adolescent

Supposedly the work of a young Mircea Eliade, one of Romania's and Europe's greatest writers and int..

Dom Casmurro

The classic of Brazilian literature, and a powerful and absorbing story of love and disillusionment,..