Roger Pulvers' translations - with detailed notes and commentary - of Japan's greatest tanka poet...

Yang Tianyi is a 'leftover woman' and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and int...

Roger Pulvers has been writing fiction set in Japan for over fifty years. Now, for the first time...

After the tragic death of Liur's mother, her father, a thwarted artist working as a doctor in the...

'Roger has fearlessly thrown himself into the whirlpool of cross-culturalism.His life reads like ...

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This...

Love and Other Moods is a coming-of-age story set in contemporary China, about falling in love, l...

Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what's an insecure guy to do? Lonely...

It is because of Mr Zibra that the Caramel Pudding Symphony Orchestra, a previously unknown orche...

Every culture has some system of knowledge to explain its place in the world. Some of these syste...

The book is a vivid honest story of a Fashion designer, looking for her inner voice and true self...

Originally published in Japanese under the title If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir, this ...

When Tan Hou is born with three dragon marks on his body, his parents know he is special. But the...

Kris et Kate construisent un bateau dans le sable et leur chien Holly gambade autour d'eux. Ils s...

How do you brand a revolution?In his engaging new book, Taking a Bite out of the Apple: A Graphic...

In the 1910s, thirteen-year-old Leong Ping Hung comes to Singapore from China to seek his fortune...

An award-winning unput-downable tale of two children building a boat from a log they find buried ...

Through misunderstanding, sympathy, reconciliation and love, seven schoolchildren forged an abidi...

Mother Bunny prepares a special family dinner for Mid-Autumn Festival. She sets out early in the ...

ROGER PULVERS'S ACCLAIMED TRANSLATION of Night on the Milky Way Train, previously available only ...

Bao Bear has never heard of Chinese New Year. He decides to invite the Fox, Mouse, and Bunny fami...

A climate crisis in the Ice Age.A cold snap leads to an unrelenting glacial. For our prehistoric ...

'It is my belief that there is no such thing as silence,' declares profoundly Evelyn Glennie. In ...

A reclusive young boy stumbles upon his father's diary. Filled with drawings, photos and anecdote...

Mr Horton has fashioned a violin out of a magic tree. But just who is worthy of playing it? The P...

Mr Horton has fashioned a violin out of a magic tree. But just who is worthy of playing it? The P...

Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lu...

Half of Each Other takes place in Tokyo.It tells the story of Nick and Setsuko York, a once very ...

Liv Grimstad is riding on a suburban train in Sydney, Australia in 1975 when she takes notice of ...

'The book spells out the great human achievements that have been brought about by humans who hunt...

Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all ove...

When the fervour of revolution is gone, what remains?Four leftist teenagers in 1950s Malaya d...

This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: '...

In the 1930s, wartime Shanghai is a cosmopolitan metropolis where conmen and dance-hall girls min...

Yang Tianyi is a 'leftover woman' and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and int...

It is because of Mr Zibra that the Caramel Pudding Symphony Orchestra, a previously unknown orche...

Daniel Fang's mid-thirties are marked by the birth of his daughter and the death of a childhood f...

Akbar's India tells the story of Akbar (emperor of India 1556 -1605) through eight paintings. The...

As Flowers Bloom and Wither tells a bold and stirring story with great sensitivity. The protagoni...

Bao Bear has never heard of Chinese New Year. He decides to invite the Fox, Mouse, and Bunny fami...

Hok Leong only knows one thing about his future: he does not want to become an office boy buying ...

Eric is a black American soldier stationed in Japan at the height of the Vietnam War. Karen is a ...

'If you want to know how Russians feel about their country, read the poetry of Sergei Esenin.'The...

Riku Sato is in the fifth grade, when he moves from Utsunomiya to Fukushima to switch schools. Mi...

Se dépayser dans une autre culture bien loin de la sienne, découvrir de façon vivante de nouveaux...

This book contains 51 sermons on High Days and Holy Days in the Christian calendar.Though arising...

A long time ago, in a beautiful litter river lived Water Girl. She loved playing in the river wit...

Kris and Kate build a boat in the sand, then, dreamlike, itbecomes a rowing boat. Their dog Holly...