UK-based Marc Joan spent the early part of his life in India, and the early part of his career in biomedical research. He draws on this and ...

Though Jayanthi Sankar is a native of India, where her books are published, she lives in Singapore.  Her fiction often explores the diversit...

Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...

Sarayu Srivasta trained as an architect and city planner in Madras and Tokyo. Her first novel, The Last Pretence , was short-listed for the...

Debasmita Dasgupta is a Singapore-based, Kirkus Best Prize nominated illustrator and graphic novelist. She enjoys illustrating fiction, non-...

Credit: Janet H Swinney; Design: Kay Green Bio:   Janet H Swinney is a former education inspector who grew up in the North East of Eng...

Nicky Harman interviews Mishi Saran, writer of fiction and non-fiction, and long-time resident of Shanghai and Hong Kong. Mishi Saran, pho...

David Chaffetz, author of A Journey through Afghanistan , is an independent researcher of Asian arts and literature. He has read Persian and...

In this post I talk about my fascination for India, and my research into the British Raj for my novel 'The Foundling's Daughter.'...

Viewpoint invites authors to write about anything they want, as long as it's of interest to readers of Asian Books Blog. Here, Mona D...

British freelance writer, author and speaker, Sylvia Vetta , is on her fourth career after teaching, running a business, and having a high...

The Whole Kahani (The Complete Story), is a collective of British fiction writers of South Asian origin. The group was formed in 2011 to pro...

The Oxford Dictionaries Hindi Word of the Year is a word or expression that has attracted a great deal of attention and reflects the ethos, ...

Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Home a...

You never know what will happen when you turn the page…UK-based Mulholland Books publishes crime, suspense and thriller novels you’ll fin...

Does the Ganges have a future? That’s the question posed by River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future  by journalist and ...

Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Mah...

Oxfordshire, 1947. Exhausted by the war and nursing a tragic secret, Kit Smallwood flees to Wickam Farm to recuperate. There she throws he...

The Ramayana , traditionally ascribed to the  Hindu  sage  Valmiki , is an ancient Sanskrit poem . It tells of  Prince Rama’s banishment ...

500 Words From ...is a series of guest posts from Asia-based authors published by Asia-based, or Asia-focussed, publishing houses, in whi...