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Thursday, 28 June 2018

Backlist books: Burmese Days by George Orwell

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Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about Burmese D...
Wednesday, 27 June 2018

In Praise of the International Dublin Literary Award

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I was honoured this year to be invited to be a judge for the International Dublin Literary Award (IDLA, formerly known as the IMPAC Pri...
Monday, 25 June 2018

Indie spotlight: An indie author’s guide to marketing, part II – selling

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Indie spotlight focusses on self-published authors and self-publishing. Here, in the second of a two-part series on marketing, Alexa Kang,...
Saturday, 23 June 2018

Indie spotlight: An indie author’s guide to marketing, part I – branding

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Indie spotlight focusses on self-published authors and self-publishing. Here, in the first of a two-part series on marketing, Alexa Kang, ...
Tuesday, 12 June 2018

First Encounter by James Rush

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The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press (OUP) contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocke...
Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Romance and Intrigue on the Bund: Shanghai Grand by Taras Grescoe

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Delve into the history of Shanghai in the interregnum between two World Wars and you will find an assortment of characters involving ta...
Monday, 4 June 2018

Read Indonesian literature! by Claudia Landini

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Claudia Landini has just returned to her native Italy after spending 30 years as an expat, most recently in Jakarta.  She here gives a perso...