Alice Clark-Platts is Asian Books Blog’s digital and self-publishing correspondent. Each month she provides an insight into these rapidly...

Orwell Honoured In Burma Nearly 80 years after George Orwell’s  Burmese Days  first hit bookshelves in 1934, it has won the highest l...

A gimbal - and the Gimbal logo Do you have an iPhone or an iPad? And do you commute? If you answer yes to both, you should download ...

According to The Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association (APWTA), Asians spend twice as many hours reading as Westerners.  But As...

As discussed in the last two posts, both Hong Kong and Singapore hosted literary festivals running Nov 1- Nov 10.  In each city, local publi...

As noted in the last post, the Singapore Writers Festival is currently running at venues across Singapore, and, in an embarrassment o...

The 2013 Singapore Writers Festival , SWF, is running from now until November 10 at venues across central Singapore - if you're in t...