It’s not often that I do arrivals posts these days, but I had to highlight these lovely books that popped through the letter box. They are the first three in a new series from World Editions, a New York based publisher (but with UK distribution). Thank you so much to the publisher Christine McSweeney for Read More
Category: Nat: Chinese author
Invisible Kitties by Yu Yoyo, #ReadingtheMeow2025 #20BooksofSummer2025
Translated by Jeremy Tiang It’s great to be able to cover two challenges with one book – as well as being one of my 20 Books of Summer, Invisible Kitties is also for Mallika’s Reading the Meow 2025, the third year of her feline reading challenge, and what a super book I picked! I really had my Read More
A Wild Swans for this generation?
Once Upon a Time in the East by Xiaolu Guo It is inevitable that Guo’s memoir, which was shortlisted this year for the Rathbones Folio Prize (which I wrote about here), will be compared with Jung Chang’s brilliant family history and memoir Wild Swans, with Guo adding her story as a young woman from the Read More
