Tash Aw Welcome to Shanghai. A Restless city where old traditions collide with new ambitions - a place where anything can happen and anyone can become somebody. Factory-girl-turned-golddigger, property magnate,...

Gay Courter Beautiful Dinah Sassoon, daughter of an affluent opium trader and pillar of Calcuttas tight-knit Jewish community, sees her privileged future destroyed when her mother is mysteriously murdered. This...

Kavita Daswani Anju wants a husband. Equally important, her entire family wants Anju to have a husband. Her life in Bombay, where a marriage can be arranged in a matter...

Rachel DeWoskin “For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”—Sophie Beach, The Economist Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a...

Nick Bradley A heartwarming and profound novel about the power of books and connection between generations, that is also a love letter to Japan and its literature.Flo is sick of...

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre   The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account (first published in 1975) by two fine journalists who conducted hundreds...

Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre On August 14, 1947 one-fifth of humanity claimed their independence in India. But 400 million people were to find that the immediate price of freedom...

Polly Evans Polly Evans’s itinerary for China was travel by luxurious high-speed train and long-distance bus, glide along the Grand Canal and hike up scenic mountains. Instead, the linguistically impaired...

Vikam SethAfter two years as a postgraduate student at Nanjing University in China, Vikram Seth hitch-hiked back to his home in New Delhi, via Tibet. From Heaven Lake is the...

James Clavell   Gai-Jin   It is 1862 and Japan is a land in chaos as the power of the Shogun wanes and the rival factions plan to restore the...

Gingetsu Itoh"Ninjutsu for the Modern Person." Gingetsu Itoh's final book on Ninjutsu. Revisiting the historical origins of Ninjutsu with his trademark historical narratives, this time Itoh "Sensei" lays out his...

Jean Kwok Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them – making a new home in a new country. But all...