2023 releases

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

A Memoir of Healing from Complex TraumaA searing memoir of reckoning and healing which investigates the little-understood science behind complex PTSD.Every cell in my body is filled with the code...

This is Cassandra Khaw's gorgeously creepy haunted house tale combining The Haunting of Hill House with The Ring, steeped in Japanese folklore and full of devastating twists.A group of thrill-seeking...

A grandson tries to learn the family story. But what kind of story is it? Is it a prison memoir, about the grandfather imprisoned without charge or trial by a...

And the brass head of ObalufonYoruba gods liberating a Nigerian artefact from London's British Museum, this is a heist novel filled to the brim with magic.Shigidi is a disgruntled nightmare...

‘Hustlers’ meets Big Little Lies in the heist of the summer…Meet Ava: rule-abiding lawyer who has ticked all of life’s boxes. She’s married to a successful surgeon and has just...

Longlisted for the Women’s Prize 2023There are the goodbyes and then the fishing out of the bodies – everything in between is speculation.One night, not long after the last American...

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...

Ann Tran is already at a crossroads when she gets the call that her beloved grandmother, Minh, has died. Ann has built a seemingly perfect life. She lives in a...

Moving, sexy, and archly funny, Gina Apostol's Philippine National Book Award-winning Bibliolepsy is a love letter to the written word and a brilliantly unorthodox look at the rebellion that brought...

A Goodreads Best Science Fiction Choice Award NomineeA New York Public Library Top 10 Book of 2022 An immersive, electrifying space-fantasy, Neon Yang's debut novel The Genesis of Misery is...

Lucie Yi has tried love – it didn’t work.She’s decided that finding Mr Right is a myth, and that finding Mr Right-enough-to-have-children-with is the next best option. So when she...

The third novel from the Booker-shortlisted author exploring love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn...

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,...

Stop chasing happiness and reconnect to the meaning of each moment through this practical guide, told through vignettes of life training as a Buddhist monk under world-renowned spiritual leader Thich...

The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwideWith insight, humour, formal invention, and lyricism,...

We are invisible: we clean your houses, we look after your children, we know your secrets.But now you know one of ours…Rules for being a maid:• No smoking• No boyfriends•...

THE EPIC ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS FANTASY THAT WILL TAKE THE WORLD BY STORMAll Talasyn has ever known are the Hurricane Wars. An orphan of the struggle, she uses the power of light...

A feast of a country's cultural historyKuang was five years old when he first arrived in Singapore from Shantou, China. Reunited with his abusive good-for-nothing grandfather and a new step-grandmother,...

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....

This is the story of the Vietnamese boat people — a real-life drama and action at sea, depicting the best and worst of humanity under adversity, trying to survive the...

A journalist's struggle to bring to justice to a boy who was unjustly killed after being tagged as a drug runner and his fight to defend the weak and the...

A tyrant's cruel reign comes to an end in a mythical Southeast Asian Sultanate where the powerless rise up against gods and monstersThe final days of Sun Girna Ginar have...

Recipes from a Lao KitchenSam Sempill was born in Australia and raised in a traditional Lao family.The recipes in this book follow the trail of Sam's grandmother's cooking back to...

Conversations on Mental Health — Weaving between Light and Shadows, Said and UnsaidDiverse voices on mental wellness in Singapore that bring you closer to your emotional and mental truthThreading Worlds:...

An intricate blend of mystery and horror with a feminist take on the roles of womanhood, especially motherhood, in contemporary timeAn unnamed young woman and her companion strike up a...

Reflections on Society and the PandemicThese are the thoughts flitted, fluttered, and formed as Teresita Cruz Del Rosario battled COVID-19 and experienced life as never before — one of danger...

Twin thieves attempt to pull off a daring heist in Stolen City, the sophomore fantasy novel from Dauntless author Elisa A. Bonnin. The city of Leithon is under Imperial occupation and Arian Athensor...

Tommy and Eva have an extraordinary gift. It's just not one they ever asked for.When Joshua and Lily meet as students in 1970s London they know right away — they've...

Fake-dates, mooncakes and rich people problems. But love wasn't meant to be on the menu . . .Dylan Tang wants to win a Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake-making competition for teen chefs...

Basking in Singapore's non-stop sunshine, low tax rate and crocodile Birkins on every other arm, Dara, Amaka, and Lillian are living the dream — until their carefully constructed lives are...

An Indonesian ExperienceWar 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 most...

Translated by YZ Chin By one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace...

Award-winning stories and tales about the rites of passage in our lives-love and loss, gladness and grief, departure and return-written in the realistic and fabulist modesA young boy and his...

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 at...

Finely textured, humane and deeply relevant, these stories of love, loss, and the politics of identity, race, and belonging, challenge comfortable conventions about ourselves. In turn wry and humorous, poignant...

A disillusioned revolutionist grappling with who he was and who he has become in disguise, set in one of the most turbulent times in modern Thailand historyA story told in...

Crazy Rich Asians meets The Devil Wears Prada, with a dash of Gossip Girl, in this dazzling debut novel.Samantha Song has always dreamed of having her own by-line in a...

An anthology of novella and short stories with supernatural elements based on Malaysia's multi-culture beliefs and mythsThe Muse and Other Stories is a collection of dark stories from the author...

The story of three immortal children and their work as healers in the City of Cebu, The PhilippinesSet in the Philippine island of Cebu and spanning a wide expanse of...

Translated by John ToledoA collection of personal essays about growing up and becoming a father from the landscapes of the Philippine countrysides to the fringes and streetways of ManilaQuinabuangan and...

A realist novel about dating apps and unrequited online love, set in fast-moving, modern ShanghaiIn modern-day China, a man has travelled to Shanghai on impulse to meet his online lover...

A teen girl must bring together two broken worlds in order to save her nation in this lush, Filipino-inspired young adult fantasy novel from debut author Elisa A. Bonnin.Seri's world...

A chronicle of the decline and fall of a powerful family that's ruled by greed and destinySet in a fictional province in the Philippines, the novel tells the story of...

Five Elementals. A fallen kingdom. One survivor to restore it.Following the events of last winter, Desert Rose flees the Oasis Kingdom with the rogue prince Wei, his mother, and a...

4 Pax to Emptiness is an urban fantasy set in Singapore and China, in 1997Four people from the tiny, wealthy, hypermodern nation of Singapore visit a remote village in the...

'An intimate love story and an epic historical tale that is sure to be read for years to come' — Julie Otsuka, author of The Swimmersand The Buddha in the...

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...

The third installment in the best-selling series that kicked off with The Mythology Class, which Publishers Weekly called "a must-read" and a "genre-defining classic of Filipino comics."The Journey to Lupan-On...

Party of One: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Superpower Future of Chinashatters the many myths and caricatures that shroud one of the world's most secretive political organisations and...