Skip to content
Balestier Press
  • Books
    • Academic
    • Literature
      • World Literature from South Asia
      • World Literature from Southeast Asia
      • World Literature from Taiwan
      • World Literature from Japan
      • World Literature from China
      • World Literature from Europe
    • Poetry
    • Young-Adult
    • Picture Books
    • Graphic Novels
    • Memoir
  • Series
    • World Literature from South Asia
    • World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • World Literature from Taiwan
    • World Literature from Japan
    • World Literature from China
    • World Literature from Europe
    • Hearing Others’ Voices
  • About
    • About Balestier Press
    • Publish with us
    • Contact
  • 0
0 Menu Close
  • Books
    • Academic
    • Literature
      • World Literature from South Asia
      • World Literature from Southeast Asia
      • World Literature from Taiwan
      • World Literature from Japan
      • World Literature from China
      • World Literature from Europe
    • Poetry
    • Young-Adult
    • Picture Books
    • Graphic Novels
    • Memoir
  • Series
    • World Literature from South Asia
    • World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • World Literature from Taiwan
    • World Literature from Japan
    • World Literature from China
    • World Literature from Europe
    • Hearing Others’ Voices
  • About
    • About Balestier Press
    • Publish with us
    • Contact
  • View:
  • 12
  • 24
  • All
  • Lonely Face Quick View
    • Lonely Face Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Lonely Face

    • GBP 10.99
    • by Yeng Pway Ngon Singapore, late 1980s. As women gain power and independence, what's an insecure guy to do? Lonely Face is the story of a man on the cusp of middle age, left behind by changing times. Fleeing his crumbling marriage on an overnight bus to Genting Highlands, he tries his luck at slot machines rather than the vagaries…
    • Add to cart
  • The Honey and the Fires Quick View
    • The Honey and the Fires Quick View
    • World Literature
    • The Honey and the Fires

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Roger Pulvers Published originally in Australia by ABC Books and HarperCollins, and in Japanese translation by the major publishing house Shueisha, THE HONEY AND THE FIRES is a retelling of some of the most powerful stories from the Bible for our day and age. This new paperback edition contains a story that did not appear in the original publication: “The Story…
    • Add to cart
  • Vacant Steppes Quick View
    • Vacant Steppes Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Southeast Asia
    • Vacant Steppes

    • GBP 12.99
    • by Steven Sy As a second invasion by the Empire threatens the nomads of the Great Steppe, a new generation of leaders must mend the broken alliances of their fathers or face certain destruction. Vacant Steppes is a Mongolia-inspired epic fantasy novel about inheritance, family, and leadership in times of division and war. “A gripping tale of war, legacy and…
    • Add to cart
  • Wedding in Autumn Quick View
    • Wedding in Autumn Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Taiwan
    • Wedding in Autumn

    • GBP 11.99
    • by  Shih Chiung-Yu Haunted by memories of the Chinese Civil War in the late 1940s, nationalist soldiers from all over mainland China are doomed to live out their days in exile in Taitung County, along the southeastern shore of the island of Taiwan. The three novellas in this collection tell stories of Chinese men who were forced to leave their…
    • Add to cart
  • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest Quick View
    • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest Quick View
    • Hearing Others' Voices
    • Façonner la parole en Afrique de l’Ouest

    • GBP 11.99
    • by Cécile Leguy Se dépayser dans une autre culture bien loin de la sienne, découvrir de façon vivante de nouveaux modes de communication et de sociabilité, tout cela sans voyager ? C’est le pari proposé au lecteur par la collection « Entendre la voix des autres », dirigée par la célèbre anthropologue britannique, Ruth Finnegan. La cible privilégiée en est…
    • Add to cart
  • LIV Quick View
    • LIV Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Europe
    • LIV

    • GBP 9.99
    • by Roger Pulvers "LIV is a gripping mystery, of a present haunted by the past, but also a profoundly moral book, asking of the reader: what would you do? In this, LIV deserves comparison with novels as great as An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink." — David Peace, author of Tokyo Year Zero.…
    • Add to cart
  • The Story of Ink and Water Quick View
    • The Story of Ink and Water Quick View
    • Picture Books
    • The Story of Ink and Water

    • GBP 10.99
    • illustrations by Liang Peilong   A long, long time ago, in a beautiful litter river lived Water Girl. She loved the river where she spent her days playing by the water. One day, she met Ink Boy. Ink Boy took a bath in the river---and instantly turned the river to a pitch black. Water Girl burst into tears, and Brush…
    • Add to cart
  • Crystal Wedding Quick View
    • Crystal Wedding Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from China
    • Crystal Wedding

    • GBP 13.99
    • 2015 English Pen Translates Award; 2016 Financial Times / OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices Awards (Longlisted). by Xu Xiaobin Yang Tianyi is a “leftover woman” and under pressure to find a husband. She is attractive and intelligent but knows little of the world, and finally makes a disastrous marriage to a man, Wang Lian. At the end of the 1980s, in Tiananmen…
    • Add to cart
  • Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Quick View
    • Happy Mid-Autumn Festival Quick View
    • Picture Books
    • Happy Mid-Autumn Festival

    • GBP 11.99
    • Story and Illustrations by Meng Yanan Mother Bunny prepares a special family dinner for Mid-Autumn Festival. She sets out early in the morning and meets lots of friends along the way: Mother Hedgehog, Mother Squirrel, Little Bee, Uncle Beaver, Mother Duck and her ducklings. Little does she know that Mr Wild Wolf is sneaking after her… Translated by Jasmine Alexander…
    • Add to cart
  • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival Quick View
    • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival Quick View
    • Picture Books
    • Tan Hou and the Double Sixth Festival

    • GBP 10.99
    • Illustrations by Cai Gao   When Tan Hou is born with three dragon marks on his body, his parents know he is special. But the dragon is the emperor’s symbol. The emperor’s men come looking for Tan Hou, but he is determined to honour his parents and stand up for his people. This is the story behind the Double Sixth…
    • Add to cart
  • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn) Quick View
    • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn) Quick View
    • World Literature, World Literature from Japan
    • The Dream of Lafcadio Hearn: a novel, with an introduction (The Life of Lafcadio Hearn)

    • GBP 13.99
    • by Roger Pulvers This fascinating fictional account of the life and times of Lafcadio Hearn probes the question: "What was the nature of this man, born wanderer, informant of the fiendish details of Japanese lore ... a man who chose to live his life 'in defiance of the season'?" Still considered by the Japanese to be the foreigner with the…
    • Add to cart
  • My Japan: a cultural memoir Quick View
    • My Japan: a cultural memoir Quick View
    • Memoir, World Literature from Japan
    • My Japan: a cultural memoir

    • GBP 13.99
    • by Roger Pulvers Originally published in Japanese under the title If There Were No Japan: A Cultural Memoir, this book was acclaimed for its insights into Japanese life, bringing together aspects of history, culture and everyday life to paint an original and revealing portrait of the Japanese people and the pressing issues facing them today. During his decades of passionate…
    • Add to cart
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7

Country

Book categories

Featured Books

  • Dinner for Six GBP 12.99
  • The Strength of Water
  • The Government Inspector for Two Actors GBP 10.99

Literatures of the World

Balestier Press

Balestier Press publishes the best and most original voices in Contemporary World Literature, Humanities and Social Sciences.

Balestier Academic publishes peer reviewed academic monographs, proceedings, protocols, contributed volumes, and educational materials in Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.

London office

Balestier Press
Centurion House
Staines-upon-Thames
TW18 4AX
London, UK

Singapore office

Balestier Press
1010 Dover Road #01-800-V
Singapore 139658

  • Balestier Press
Copyright © 2023 by Balestier Press Europe Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Prices are inclusive of VAT / GST, where applicable.
×
×

Cart