Haruki MurakamiAcross seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are vanishing cats...

Sompon and Elizabeth NabnianA Passion for Thai Cooking, Easy to follow recipes from the Chiang mai Thai Cookery SchoolThe simple straight forward recipes in this cookbook have been developed through...

Brigid Treloar Unique flavours, elegant presentation and light healthy food served in a manner that is fresh and interesting are just some of the features of Japanese cooking. This collection...

Gene Luen YangAll Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds that he's the only Chinese American student at his...

Gavin MenziesIn his bestselling book 1421:The Year China Discovered the World, Gavin Menzies revealed that it was the Chinese that discovered America, not Columbus. Now he presents further astonishing evidence...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerSaid by Singer to be his favourite among all his books, The Penitent is the story of Joseph Shapiro's search for salvation. After escaping the Nazi terror,...

John Burnham SchwartzWhen Alec Stern arrives in Japan, he discovers a land of opportunity. For only in Tokyo could an impressionable young man fresh out of college find, in one...

Joyce LebraShe was taught to submit, to obey . . . but she dreamed of an empire.The sole heir to the House of Omura, a venerable family of Kobe sake...

Thrity Umrigar Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and...

Pearl S BuckAutobiography of Pearl S Buck. A memoir of the life of the first female Nobel Laureate for Literature, who was also a world citizen and a major humanitarian,...

Gayatri DeviShe is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants...

Han SuyinSet against a backdrop of the Malayan Emergency of the late 1940s and 1950s, this book describes the methods used by the British colonial authorities and by the left-wing...