Nicky Harman is a much-acclaimed translator of Chinese into English. She focusses on fiction, poetry and occasionally literary non-ficti...

A Day In The Life Of …is an occasional series in which booksellers and people working in the publishing industry talk about their working...

Asian Books Blog is not a review site. If you want reviews, see the  Asian Review of Books . Here is a list of its newest reviews: Jim...

Gunter Grass died yesterday.  Here are six of the many obituaries being published around the world. The Guardian (UK) The New York Times...

Bad luck to PP Wong ( The Life of a Banana ) and to Xiaolu Gu ( I Am China ) who were both on the longlist for The Bailey's Women's ...

Griffith Review  is Australia’s leading literary quarterly . Each issue is themed. Recent editions have covered topics as varied as renew...

Ann Bennett’s novel Bamboo Heart won the inaugural Asian Books Blog Book of The Lunar Year Award, for the Year of the Horse – click here...