Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024

Ghost Cities

Siang Lu

Perfect for fans of Haruki Murakami, Ghost Cities is a profound and highly imaginative novel that cleverly draws on Chinese history to explore the absurdity of modern life and work.

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Empireworld

Sathnam Sanghera

A ground-breaking exploration of how British empire has shaped the world we live in today from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Empireland

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The Golden Road

William Dalrymple

India was the forgotten heart of the ancient world

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36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

Nam Le

Fifteen years after his best-selling, award-winning collection of stories The Boat, Nam Le returns to his great themes of identity and representation in a virtuosic debut book of poetry

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She Is the Earth

Ali Cobby Eckermann

She Is the Earth is the luminous new verse novel from celebrated poet Ali Cobby Eckermann. It charts a journey through grief and celebrates the healing power of Country. We…

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Songs for the Dead and the Living

Sara M Saleh

A stunning coming-of-age tale played out across generations and continents, from Palestine to Australia.

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Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

The Booker-shortlisted author of the Ibis trilogy explores the impact of opium on global history, economies, cultures, and his own understanding of self.

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Gunflower: Stories

Laura Jean McKay

The brilliant new short story collection from the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Animals in That Country.

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Your Utopia

Bora Chung, Anton Hur (trans.)

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the Korean by Anton Hur, Your Utopia is full of tales of loss and discovery, idealism…

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River East, River West

Aube Rey Lescure

A darkly glittering literary debut that traces a mixed family's troubled trajectory through developing China.

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Invitation to a Banquet

Fuchsia Dunlop

The epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishes

Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese labourers…

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A-Maze

Ma Thida

What's happening after the 2021 military coup attempt in Myanmar? Since the coup, people have been deeply shocked by how the Tatmadaw (army) has savagely undermined the pillars of democracy.Regarding…

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My Dream Job

Norman Erikson Pasaribu

The first English-language work from the author of award-winning Sergius Mencari Bacchus and Happy Stories, Mostly. A poetry collection exploring labour, class, and queerness.

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A Death in Malta

Paul Caruana Galizia

'A moving testament to the life and work of an extraordinary woman and the country-changing power of journalism' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times

'A murdered mother's fight for truth and justice…

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Cigarette Girl

Ratih Kumala

Cigarette Girl is more than a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set on the island of Java, the story follows the evolution of a family's kretek…

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In Other Words: 40 Years of Writing on Indonesia

Goenawan Mohamad

A wide-ranging and beautiful collection of essays from one of world literature’s most important writers.

Goenawan Mohamad is one of Indonesia’s foremost public intellectuals, and this translated volume of essays…

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Ubud Writers & Readers Festival 2024

Ghost Cities

Empireworld

The Golden Road

36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem

She Is the Earth

Songs for the Dead and the Living

Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories

Gunflower: Stories

Your Utopia

River East, River West

Invitation to a Banquet

A-Maze

My Dream Job

A Death in Malta

Cigarette Girl

In Other Words: 40 Years of Writing on Indonesia