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A hilariously fresh and romantic send-up to You’ve Got Mail about a gamer girl with a secret identity and the online bestie she’s never met IRL – until she unwittingly...

The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021 It’s Chinese New Year, a time to celebrate…...

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year-old self-proclaimed tea expert Vera Wong enjoys nothing more than sipping a good cup of Wulong and doing...

One of the Guardian's best food books of 2023Winner of the André Simon AwardOne of OFM's 50 Best Cookbooks of All Time The Rice Book became an instant classic when...

Alan Noland discovers his father's memoirs about the atrocities he committed in the Dutch East Indies during the war with Japan – and Alan begins to understand how war transformed...

A Political BiographyIn 2014, Joko Widodo — popularly known as Jokowi — was elected the seventh president of the Republic of Indonesia, going on to win a second five-year term...

Translated by Tiffany TsaoTo say it is hard to be queer in Indonesia is a gross understatement. LGBTQI Indonesians encounter violence on a regular basis – from those around them,...

Translated by Tiffany TsaoHappy Stories, Mostly is a playful, charged and tender collection of twelve stories – a blend of speculative fiction and dark absurdism, often drawing on Norman Erikson...

The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. This exquisite and unusual magic realist debut, told in intensely lyrical prose by...

A tale of love and loss, scarring and healing, set against the 2002 Bali bombing in the present, Singapore's largest fire in the past, and a buried secret between.Lee Yang...

Translated by Stephen J. EpsteinThe most ingenious, unique novel you will read all year, where you choose your own story as you travel across the world, from one of Asia's...

A Sumatran Odyssey Translated by Jennifer LindsayRejection is an epic family drama by Ashadi Siregar set against the turbulent years following Indonesia's independence.The story follows Tondi who as a young...

Your family would kill to see you happy‘ARE YOU…DEAD?' OH MY GOD. I THINK HE IS.When Meddy Chan accidentally kills her blind date, she turns to her aunties for help....

They vow to make it a day to remember…The laugh-out-loud new novel from the bestselling author of Dial A For Aunties, winner of the Comedy Women In Print Prize 2021It’s...

Crazy Rich Asians meets To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before in this an outrageous, laugh-out-loud yet heartfelt YA fake dating romcom, from the winner of the Comedy Women in...

Recipes from my Indonesian kitchenSelected by the New York Times as one of the best cookbooks of 2020Be transported to the bountiful islands of Indonesia by this collection of fragrant,...

Direct from the traditional home kitchens of Bali, Paon is a cookbook of true Balinese food and recipes.Sharing more than 80 dishes alongside essays and beautiful photography capturing the life,...

An Indonesian Experience War on Corruption: An Indonesian Experience is a courageous, informed, and sober insider's account of the challenge for democracy and the rule of law within the fourth...

Translated by Dias Novita WuriA dazzling novella from a rising star of Indonesian literature that explores what it means to be a woman — whoever you are, wherever you are,...

1941, West Java. Love and revolution are in the air. And war is on its way. Shortly before the Japanese invade, the van Hoorn family throws their famous Sinterklaas party...

A mesmerising novel by the author of Rainbirds and The Perfect Worldof Miwako Sumida about a young man trying to escape his past in Japan. When Shouji Arai crosses one...

A playful, ambitious and action-packed novel that explores the turbulent story of twentieth-century Korea through the life of one remarkable, charismatic — and unreliable — womanSLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY....

Award-winning author Petty Pandean-Elliott tells the story of her Indonesian heritage through 150 much-loved and delicious recipes perfect for home cooks everywhere.Comprising more than 17,000 islands, Indonesia is renowned as...

Everyday Food from AsiaDelicious, modern, versatile Asian-influenced recipes from an international rising star of cookeryAsian food has it all — contrasts of flavour and texture, straightforward dishes you can eat...