Best wishes for 2016!
The blog is closed from today, Monday 21 December, until Tuesday 12 January, when we'll be back with details of the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year Award, for the Year of the Sheep / Goat / Deer.
Monday, 21 December 2015
Closing for Christmas
Best wishes for 2016!
The blog is closed from today, Monday 21 December, until Tuesday 12 January, when we'll be back with details of the Asian Books Blog Book of the Lunar Year Award, for the Year of the Sheep / Goat / Deer.
Sunday, 20 December 2015
Saturday, 19 December 2015
Tales of Two Cities: Hong Kong and Singapore
Tales of Two Cities: An Anthology
of Short Stories by the Hong Kong Writers Circle, and the Singapore Writers
Group presents four faces of each city: the changing city; the historic city;
the mystical city; the capricious city.
There are twenty three stories in the collection, which has been co-edited by
Alice Clark-Platts, and S. Micky Lin, from the Singapore Writers Group, and
Edmund Price and Harmony Sin, from the Hong Kong Writers Circle. Here, Alice Clark-Platts gives a glimpse of how the collaboration
worked.
Thursday, 17 December 2015
Indie spotlight: Christmas marketing opportunities
Indie spotlight is our monthly column on
self-publishing. This month our regular columnist, Siobhan Daiko, who is herself
an indie author, explains how Christmas presents many marketing opportunities, to those with a book to sell.
Just quickly
I wrote an account of viewing snow in Singapore, for the UK Telegraph. If you're interested, click here.
Sunday, 13 December 2015
Thursday, 10 December 2015
Lion City Lit: Swag
Asian
Books Blog is based in Singapore. Lion City Lit explores what’s going on in the
City-State, lit-wise. Here Jo Furniss introduces Swag, the new online literary magazine
she's launching. Its events calendar, which brings all relevant listings together in one convenient place, is already live, and is packed with ideas. From
January, the quarterly journal will feature author interviews and new writing.
So:
over to Jo…
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
This week in Asian Review of Books
See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here are links to its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, listings, translations, news items, and round ups:
Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World by Jeremy Friedman reviewed by Francis P Sempa
Asian books among the Economist’s best of the year, and ARB reviews
Staging Corruption: Chinese Television and Politics by Ruoyun Bai reviewed by Coraline Goron
Outside reading: links to essays and articles on translations, children’s books, China, North Korea, Philippines
The Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay reviewed by Peter Gordon
Frontiers Reimagined. Art that Connects Us: 44 Artists, 25 Countries by Sundaram Tagore and Marius Kwint (curators) reviewed by Juan Jose Morales
Sunday, 6 December 2015
Thursday, 3 December 2015
500 words from William L. Gibson
500 words from...is a series of
guest posts from authors writing about Asia, published by Asia-based, or
Asia-focussed, publishing houses, in which they talk about their latest books.
Here Jakarta-based William L. Gibson talks about Singapore Yellow, volume two
in his 19th century Detective Hawksworth trilogy, set in Singapore and Malaya –
it kicked off with Singapore Black, and will conclude with Singapore Red. The
trilogy is published by Monsoon, a company specialising in books that open
windows onto south-east Asian history.
Just quickly...
I wrote an account of the amazing building housing Singapore's new National Gallery, for the UK Telegraph. If you're interested, click here.
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
This Week in Asian Review of Books
See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here are links to its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, listings, translations, news items, and round ups:
Asian books among the New York Times 100 Notable for 2015, and ARB reviews
Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empireby Roger Crowley reviewed by Jame DiBiasio
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 shortlist and ARB reviews
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands by Sulmaan Wasif Khan reviewed by Glyn Ford
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient by Ira Nadel reviewed by Kerry Brown
Conquerors: How Portugal Seized the Indian Ocean and Forged the First Global Empireby Roger Crowley reviewed by Jame DiBiasio
DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 shortlist and ARB reviews
Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China’s Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands by Sulmaan Wasif Khan reviewed by Glyn Ford
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient by Ira Nadel reviewed by Kerry Brown