LAST October, the Swedish Academy stunned the world of letters with its announcement that France’s Patrick Modiano had been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature.

FICTION makes it seem easy to explore another life, as the young film-maker Oleg Erdmann attempts to do in Andrei Makine’s latest and characteristically challenging novel. 

OVER the past decade UK-based MacLehose Press has earned deserved plaudits for its dedication to translating the most compelling foreign-language literature for an English-language audience.

More than a decade after the death of Stieg Larsson, a fourth novel in the bestselling Millenium series is about to be published.

The Heart of Man

IN A BASEMENT studio just outside Paris, Gaspard Winckler, a master forger, has just murdered Anatole Madera, the crooked head of a group of international art dealers, and his patron. 

Timur Vermes

Claudie Gallay (translated by Alison Anderson)

Otto De Kat (translated by Ina Rilke)

The Investigation

The Library of Unrequited Love, Sophie Divry (translated by Sián Reynolds), Maclehose Press, £6.99; Kindle, £2.57

Thrillers

Roads to Berlin

The Voyage

Where I Left My Soul

How The Trouble Started

Catching The Sun

Breathless

Treblinka: A Survivor’s Memory

Falling Sideways

On Ugliness

Accabadora, Michela Murgia (translated by Silvester Mazzarella)

As Though She Were Sleeping

The Foxes Come at Night, Cees Nooteboom. Maclehose Press, £12.

Monsieur Linh and His Child

Shadow Country

School of Blues

Elia Barceló Translated by David Frye

Heaven and Hell

Review: Jennifer Hough

Natacha Appanah