Lisa See In their remote mountain village, Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. For the Akha people, ensconced in ritual and...

Alex Garland Gripping from the first pages, Garland's new novel is set over three hours during one night in Manila. With the pace and suspense of "The Beach", this novel...

Lin Hong   A Chinese doctor in a southern English town, Ju Lin's solitary life is transformed when Lucy walks into her acupucture clinic, and opens her heart. Ju Lin...

Lynne KutsukakeAgainst the backdrop of occupied Tokyo, a young girl searches for her missing older sister, who has disappeared into the world of bars and dance halls. In the process,...

Indu Sundaresan An enchanting seventeenth-century epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most legendary and controversial empresses -- a woman...

Geling Yan "When factory worker Dan Dong accidentally discovers how easy it is to infiltrate state- and corporate-sponsored banquets by posing as a journalist, he quickly becomes addicted to the...

Chia-Chia Lin   A searing debut novel that explores community, identity, and the myth of the American dream through an immigrant family in AlaskaIn Chia-Chia Lin’s debut novel, The Unpassing,...

Amy Tan A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that moves from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of...

Liane Grunberg Wakabayashi Contrasting wedding ceremonies—a lavish Imperial Hotel Shinto affair for his side, a modest Jewish wedding for hers—set the stage for a fascinating union between two spiritual seekers,...

Master Lam Kam Chuen with Lam Kai Sin and Lam Tin Yu Like wine, tea has infinite variations of colour, aroma and taste for the conoisseur to savour. The Way...

Aravind Adiga   Born in a village in heartland India, the son of a rickshaw puller, Balram is taken out of school by his family and put to work in...

Compiled by Uma Das Gupta This book is a collection of essays of the late Professor Ashin Das Gupta - one of the pioneers of maritime history in India. It...