South East Asia

Make and decorate the retro cakes of your dreams It’s cake time! Start your delicious adventure in cake baking and retro decorating with this delightful baking book. Embark on a...

White Hibiscus is a meditation on how trauma casts stones into the strange waters of our lives, creating ripples that stretch on long after the stones have sunk.White Hibiscus is a...

Presents a significant new way of looking at classical architecture in the Asian colonial context. Through a broad range of case studies spanning from imperial monuments to rural residences, Malayan...

One will lose his mind. One will pay. One will agonise. And one will die. Duy, Phong, Minh, and Edmond have been best friends since childhood. Now, as young men...

A coming-of-age tale of love and cultural reconnection set in modern-day Kuala Lumpur KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive...

*Highly Commended Fiction — Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021* 'Before I go into my grave,' she says out loud, 'I will kill that man.' A brilliant new novel from the...

In writing her sister Annie's eulogy, Kathy reflects on the complexities that shaped their family and their identities. It’s winter in Logan, south-east Queensland, and still warm enough to sleep...

The title of this collection, Revenants, suggests spirits and ghosts who return to the human world through dream and art, not to haunt it, but to remind the living that...

Discover the food of the Philippines’ 7000 tropical islands.Colourful and vibrant, Filipino food is the culmination of naturally salty, sour and sweet ingredients from the land, along with the heart-warming...

‘Fortunes rise and fall. One day you have a lucky ticket and get a dinner so good and you eat so much that you think you’ll never need to eat...

A spellbinding literary debut set in Malaysia exploring family relationships, love and warMary is a difficult grandmother for Durga to love. Sharp-tongued and ferocious, Durga hopes simply to endure her...

Says Van about her collection: ‘The old hill near where I grew up was outwardly ruined: its pines were dead, its vines gone to seed and its sheds, which once...

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,...

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...

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 science-fiction novel involving clones, a psychic, and empathy as a recreational drug.We have always been we. Then they forced us to become you and I...Empathy consists of two stories...

A hauntingly beautiful love story about the ties that bind from award-winning author, Simone Lazaroo. Elspeth is full of inexpressible longings — to leave behind her beginnings in a small...

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...

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...

In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the...

Recipes from a Lao Kitchen Sam 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...

Winner of the non-fiction prize in the 2011 WA Premier's Book Awards Shortlisted for the non-fiction prize in the 2012 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards...