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At MacLehose Press we publish some of the finest literature from around the world. Our list has grown to include writers from almost every continent and some of the most celebrated translators working today. From writers as yet undiscovered, to prize-winning household names; from dazzling literary creations to spine-tingling noir masterpieces, we endeavour to bring a broad spectrum of the very best of foreign literature to English-reading audiences. Our mission is to READ THE WORLD ‒ we hope you will join us on our adventures.

Our recent fiction by women writers
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Nothing Belongs to You
Witches: A Novel
Hunter in Huskvarna
Canoes
The Fire
The Fawn
Vengeance is Mine
The Girl in the Eagle's Talons: the pulse-pounding DRAGON TATTOO thriller
Wound
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Our "BOOKS OF THE YEAR" in 2023
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The Living and the Rest
Vengeance is Mine
White Riot: The Sunday Times Thriller of the Month
Nothing Belongs to You
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Boris Dralyuk shares a bookshelf of Ukrainian literature
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Death and the Penguin: A BBC Two Between the Covers Pick
Your Ad Could Go Here: Stories
Odessa Stories
Perverzion
Mesopotamia
Life Went on Anyway: Stories
Peltse and Pentameron
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Eclectic non-fiction
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The Man Who Loved Siberia
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe
Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life
Bees and Their Keepers: From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the-Pooh
Norwegian Wood: The guide to chopping, stacking and drying wood the Scandinavian way
The Hidden Pleasures of Life: A New Way of Remembering the Past and Imagining the Future
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
An Inventory of Losses: WINNER OF THE WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATION
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
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Books to take you places
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The Border - A Journey Around Russia: SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
Sovietistan: A Journey Through Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China
The Santiago Pilgrimage: Walking the Immortal Way
Venice: The Lion, the City and the Water
Turkiye: Cycling Through a Country’s First Century
The Book of Legendary Lands
Roads to Berlin
An Armenian Sketchbook
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Erika Fatland's selection of travel literature
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017
Imperium: With an afterword by Margaret Atwood
Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia
The Bookseller Of Kabul: The International Bestseller - 'An intimate portrait of Afghani people quite unlike any other' SUNDAY T
Shadow of the Silk Road: (Vintage Voyages)
Travels with Herodotus
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Rahul Bery's bookshelf of lusospheric literature
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Our Musseque
The Maias
Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas: A Novel
The Madwoman of Serrano
Kokoschka's Doll
The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas
The Return
With My Dog-Eyes: A Novel
Take Six (Six Portuguese Women Writers)
Sao Bernardo
A General Theory of Oblivion
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Crime writer and police detective Olivier Norek chooses his "dream team" of twelve
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The Dumas Club
The Birds And Other Stories
The Neverending Story
Planet of the Apes
The Catcher in the Rye
The Phantom of the Opera
The World According To Garp
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Kari Dickson's favourite books in translation in 2020
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Vernon Subutex One: the International Booker-shortlisted cult novel
Arid Dreams
The Travels
The Blue Fox: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
The Vegetarian: Winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature
Down the Rabbit Hole: Shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award
Waffle Hearts
Madame Bovary
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No better gift than a book!
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The Invisible: A Greek holiday escape becomes a dark investigation; a thrilling outback noir from the author of THE STONING
What We Leave Behind: A Birdwatcher's Dispatches from the Waste Catastrophe
The Lover: A twisty scandi thriller about a woman caught in her own web of lies
Winter Swimming: The Nordic Way Towards a Healthier and Happier Life
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook
The People Immortal
High: A Journey Across the Himalayas Through Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal and China
The Enigma of Room 622: The devilish new thriller from the master of the plot twist
Retrospective
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"Books to look out for in 2024"
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Before the Queen Falls Asleep: A powerful novel about exile, displacement and family by an iconic Palestinian writer
And the Stones Cry Out
The Silver Bone: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
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