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- Vivek Shanbhag's Sakina's Kiss, now also out in US and UK editions
- Matsuie Masashi's The Summer House (coming out in the UK as: Summer at Mount Asama)
- Miguel Delibes' 1981 novel, The Holy Innocents, now in English, in Yale University Press' The Margellos World Republic of Letters-series
- Baalu Girma's 1983 novel Oromay, now available in English -- a rare translation from the Amharic
- Tom Comitta offers both The Most Wanted and Unwanted Novels in People's Choice Literature, coming soon from Columbia University Press
- A new translation of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's The Innocent Libertine, from Dedalus
- Notes from a Lost Manuscript: Peter Cornell's 1987 work, The Ways of Paradise, recently out in English, from Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Nezami Ganjavi's Khosrow and Shirin, now in a Penguin Classics edition
- The Biography of a Masterpiece and its Maker by Zachary Leader, Ellmann's Joyce
- Brigid Brophy's 1956 novel, The King of a Rainy Country, coming out in a new edition from McNally Editions
- Anjet Daanje's novel The Remembered Soldier
- Egon Hostovský's prize-winning 1935 novel, The Arsonist, in a re-issued edition from Twisted Spoon Press
- The latest from Murata Sayaka -- well, her 2015 novel, Vanishing World, now available in English
- Fujisawa Shuhei's 1988 novel Semishigure, now available in English, from Honford Star
- Iddo Gefen's Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory
- Antonio Muñoz Molina's Your Steps on the Stairs, now (almost) out in English, from Other Press
- Robert Littell's just re-issued thriller, The Amateur -- with a new movie version due out shortly
- Vincenzo Latronico's International Booker Prize-longlisted novel, Perfection
- Chaim Grade's Sons and Daughters, serialized in the 1960s and 1970s and now available in English
- Gerald Murnane's classic novel, The Plains
- A new translation of Kong Shangren's The Peach Blossom Fan, in a bilingual edition in Oxford University Press' Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature-series
- A Novel against Psicho-Analise, Emil Szittya's The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards, now in English, from Wakefield Press
- The second Jack Reacher novel, from back in 1998, Lee Child's Die Trying
- Jean Echenoz's Command Performance, now in English, from New York Review Books
- Laurent Binet's new novel, Perspective(s) (published in the UK as Perspectives ...)
- A new translation, by Wendy Chen, of The Complete Poems of Li Qingzhao (1084-1151), The Magpie at Night
- Mbarek Ould Beyrouk's Saara, just out in English from Dedalus
- Shimamoto Rio's Naoki Prize-winning First Love, now in English, from Honford Star
- Hanna Stoltenberg's Near Distance, now also out in a North American edition, from Biblioasis
- A new translation of Honoré de Balzac's The Lily in the Valley, recently out from New York Review Books
- Francis Carco's 1925 novel, Perversity -- translated, back in the day, by Jean Rhys !
- A selection of Tove Ditlevsen's poetry, There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die
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