Bestsellers

Translated by Joel Martinsen The universe is a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, others are hell, a dire existential threat. Stealth is survival. Any civilisation...

One woman, many personas. But which one is telling the truth? Alexa Wu is a brilliant yet darkly self-aware young woman whose chaotic life is manipulated and controlled by a...

A pianist in Beijing must find a way to the life she really wants, in this atmospheric new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Braised Pork For three years,...

A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, Laura immigrates to Texas, where her hometown is...

Translated by Karen Gernant and Chan Zeping Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award In Mother River, Can Xue, one of China's most daring and visionary writers, invites us...

A luminous new translation of the greatest poets in Chinese historyLi Qingzhao is justly celebrated for her place in Chinese literary history. She was a poet with a wry, unsentimental...

 The collected stories of Cixin Liu, international bestselling author of The Three-Body Problem. From cosmological horror to wry satire, from first contact to the end of everything, these 32 stories explore...

Translated by Jeremy Tiang A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary...

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIRWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOKS CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2025 ANISFIELD WOLF PRIZEWINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL...

 Translated by Ken Liu A first contact SF novel, from the Hugo Award winning author of Folding Beijing. 2080, the world is divided, dominated by two antagonistic factions, the Pacific League...

Known as The Girl Blessed By Death, Yang Ruying wants only to survive, but when her magic is discovered by an enemy prince she must decide if saving her family...

Translated by Carlos Rojas A laugh-out-loud political and sexual satire about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, by the acclaimed author of Serve The People! Hard Like Water is a brilliant satire...

Translated by Ken Liu AD 2201: Earth and the colonies of Mars attempt a reconciliation after a century-long Cold War. Can two mutually antagonistic cultures forget the past and embrace...

Chinese Australian Voices South Flows the Pearl is a fascinating journey through the history of Chinese Australia. Taking the reader from Shanghai and the Pearl River Delta to Sydney, Perth,...

A dazzling debut collection which, deftly and urgently, tells the stories of those living in the biggest and most complicated country on earth.A brother competes for gaming glory while his...

The Boy in the Baseball Cap explores a range of subjects, and explores gay and lesbian themes, in a post-Menglong style.

An unforgettable portrait of the tectonic shifts happening in rural China. After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in...

The epic first novel in a sweeping series following the romantic lives and intrigues of the fictionalized descendants of a Chinese empress — now in paperback! Behind every great family...

The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after...

The Eisner-nominated MONSTRESS is back! Maika, Kippa, and Ren journey to Thyria in search of answers to her past... and discover a new, terrible, threat. Maika Halfwolf is on the...

The second book in The Dandelion Dynasty, the epic fantasy trilogy by Ken Liu. Kuni Garu, now Emperor of Dara, confronts the challenges of supreme power: both from within and...

Escape from China's modern-day concentration camps A shocking depiction of one of the world's most ruthless regimes — and the story of one woman's fight to survive. I will never...

Ai Weiwei — one of the world's most famous artists and activists — tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the...

A dazzling new collection of short stories written over a decade, spanning loss, alienation, ageing and the strangeness of contemporary life – from Yiyun Li, the prize-winning author of The...

For fans of Children of Blood and Boneand Six of Crows comes the thrilling conclusion to the Blood Heir trilogy. A princess with a dark secret must ally with a...

Translated by Joshua L. Freeman A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history'Essential reading'AI WEIWEI, author of 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows'Deserves to be...

BLOOD HEIR is the first book in an epic new series about a princess hiding a dark secret and the conman she must trust to clear her name of murder....

A thought-provoking work by a singular voice, this short, sharp essay invites us to critically reconsider power, ideology and the boundaries of free speech.Invisible, invasive and widely taken for granted,...

Over 80 Plant-based Recipes for Every Occasion From the creators of Vegan Chinese Food, Yang and Kathi of littlericenoodle present a vibrant exploration of vegan Asian street food that goes beyond...

A collection of Deliciously Frightening Tales According to Chinese tradition, those who die hungry or unjustly come back to haunt the living. Some are appeased with food, but not all...

From an 'indispensable voice on China' (Evan Osnos) comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress America used to pride itself on ambition. Today, it looks stuck. Meanwhile, China...

The Full Story Behind Sun Tzu's Masterpiece! Illustrated by Takashi MomonariAdapted by Yoshihiro Watanabe Learn the full back story behind the world's greatest book on military strategy! The Art of...

A reimagining of Moby Dick from the perspective of a cross-dressing female sailor. Moby-Dick reimagined from the perspective of a cross-dressed female sailor'Brilliantly written... ambitious, brave, strange' Philip Hoare'One of the most valuable...

Long-listed for the Man Booker International Prize 2018, The Stolen Bicycle is now available in a more compact paperback edition.A writer embarks on an epic quest in search of his missing father's...

The Immortality Trials offer a second chance in this brutal world and are open to any mortal willing to risk the journey to the immortal realm. The prize for completing...

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother...

Translated by Michael Berry "She knew that if she didn't say her piece, that flame would never be extinguished; even after death, it would continue raging." The Running Flame opens...

Translated by Scott E. Myers Mu Cao is a bold, pioneering Chinese novelist who dares to challenge the status quo—living openly gay in China and shedding a strong light on...

How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how...

Translated by Michael Berry Fang Fang’s Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining...

Translated by Li-Young Lee, Yun Wang A landmark translation of the timeless classic of Daoist wisdom, rendered in gorgeous poetry that illuminates its enduring teachings. This bold new translation by...

A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics-the foundational work of Daoism-by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text. Laozi...

'China The Cookbook is a magnificent insight into the history of Chinese cuisine. I will treasure it in my collection and it will be no doubt be used as valuable...

Deeply moving' ABI DARE 'Weaves expertly between present and past' CELESTE NG 'Unforgettable' WASHINGTON POST 'Mesmerising' HARPER'S BAZAAR Suchi and Haiwen first meet as children in Shanghai, where their friendship...

What if you could avenge your own murder? A brilliant young woman gets a second chance at life in this debut YA tale of vengeance, court intrigue, and romance, inspired...

Translated by Dylan Levi King The phenomenal #1 Chinese bestseller, with over 3 million copies sold. This is a searing exploration of what makes a hero- a literary masterpiece, available...

 'We're mysterious aliens in the crowd. We jump like fleas from future to past and back again, and float like clouds of gas between nebulae; in a flash, we can...

Five Modern and Contemporary Chinese Poets in Translation the lantern light seems to have written a poem;they feel lonesome since i won’t read them.—“lantern” by Fei Ming The work of...

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019 The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers In this darkly comic novel, a group of women...

*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about...