Booklists

If, like me, you've been addicted to Arne Dahl's BBC4 Intercrime adaptations, as well as The Killing and The Bridge, you've probably already torn through the books and you're hungry for more!

Never fear... I've had a look through the Booktrust archive of books and found these tasty crime thrillers in translation from all around the world to whet your appetite.

These books will take you deep into Scandinavia, to the heady heights of Havana, Cuba to Italy and beyond.

Celebrating the announcement of Mo Yan as 2012's Nobel Laureate in Literature, we thought we'd dig into our bookfinder archives and show you some books by previous Nobel Laureates.

Five classic books that started life in another language.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement next month, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.
Here are five classic books that started life in another language, you may have read them or you may have not... but chances are you will have heard of them...

Five books in translation that made it on to our screens.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.

So in the first of our themed booklists, here are five translated fiction novels that have been adapted for the screen.

With the upcoming Independent Foreign Fiction Prize winner announcement, we thought it ample opportunity to draw your attention to other books in translation.

When we talk about 'State-of-the-nation' novels, we tend to mean books that are British or American, approximately the size of breezeblocks and terribly, terribly Serious – like Jonathan Franzen's Freedom or George Eliot's Middlemarch. What we tend to forget is that the Russians have been doing this for ever, and usually better - and far more entertainingly - than us Anglophones.

Here is the Booktrust's list of 5 great State-of-Russia novels

Chosen by our translated fiction reviewers, Nikesh Shukla, Catherine Mansfield and Pete Mitchell, here are our five translated books of the year...

Our choice of novels from mainland Europe.

Norway, Sweden and Finland