500 Words From  is a series of guest posts from writers, in which they talk about their latest books.  UK-based Tim Symonds writes Sherlo...

The Man Booker International Prize celebrates fiction from around the world translated into English. The judges have now revealed the sho...

Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director of Oxford University Press, Pakistan (OUP), has just announced in Karachi that to celebrate 70 years of Pa...

Choo Waihong has just brought out The Kingdom of Women: Life, Love and Death in China’s Hidden Mountains, an account of the Mosuo tribe,...

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our regular column Lion City Lit explores in-depth what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise. L...

American-born, Singapore-resident writer and editor Lucy Day , who blogs at Some People Juggle Geese , has compiled a list of her own blog ...

UK-based  Ann Bennett’s newly-published Bamboo Road  is part of a Second World War trilogy of historical novels set in Southeast Asia. Her...