Indie Spotlight: Siobhan Daiko

Indie Spotlight is our monthly column on self-publishing. This month our new indie correspondent Siobhan Daiko introduces herself, and talks about her own writing.

This Week in Asian Review of Books

See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, essays, and round ups:

Poetry: excerpts from Wild Words: Four Tamil Poets by Lakshmi Holmstrom
The Book of Gold Leaves by Mirza Waheed reviewed by Anu Kumar
Poetry: Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe reviewed byPeter Gordon
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy reviewed byJane Wallace

The Sunday Post

A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week…

Financial Times / Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award, 2015

The longlist has just been announced for the inaugural Financial Times / Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Award, which aims to recognise extraordinary artistic talent in three categories – fiction, film-making, and art across more than 100 emerging market nations.

This Week in Asian Review of Books

See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, essays, and round ups:

Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army by Phyllis Birnbaum reviewed by Stephen Joyce
Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne reviewed byTim Hannigan
Beatson’s Mutiny: The Turbulent Career of a Victorian Soldier by Richard Stevenson reviewed by Nigel Collett
The Tusk That Did The Damage by Tania James reviewed by Agnes Bun

Q & A: Jemimah Steinfeld

Asia House, in London, is a non-profit, non-political organisation that promotes the exchange of ideas between the diverse communities of Europe and Asia. Each May it hosts The Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival which features some of the best in literature with specifically Asian interest. For the first time this year Jemimah Steinfeld was Festival Manager – she is also the author of Little Emperors and Material Girls: Sex and Youth in Modern China.  I asked her to reflect on this year’s recently-concluded Festival.

This Week in Asian Review of Books

Asian Books Blog is not a review site. If you want reviews, see the Asian Review of Books. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, essays, bibliographies, and round ups:

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth’s Rarest Creatures by William de Buys reviewed by Jame DiBasio
Outside reading: links to essays on Eileen Chang, Laszlo Krasznahorkai and agenting in China 
Rejection Proof: How I Beat Fear and Became Invincible Through 100 Days of Rejection by Jia Jiang reviewed by Jill Baker
India and its history: a bibliography 
Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R Taggart Murphy reviewed by Glyn Ford