In 1949, as the British Empire began to fade into history, The government of the UK and those of seven former colonies came togeth...

  500 Words From is a series of guest posts from authors.  Here, Julian Kim talks about  his first novel, SAINTS: Song of Winds.  This ...

The Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) in Phnom Penh enables research into the years 1975 – 1979, when the Khmer Rouge kil...

Revenge , by Yoko Ogawa, translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder, is a mesmerising, weird, and elusive meditation on...what, precisely?...

500 Words From is a series of guest posts from authors.   Here, Dawn Farnham talks about The Straits Quartet , her acclaimed series of ...

Australia's Nita B Kibble Literary Awards aim to encourage women writers to advance the cause of literature. The Awards recognise wome...

500 Words From  is a series of guest posts from writers, in which they talk about their latest books. Here, Malaysian author D. Devika Ba...