Lunar New Year

Welcome the Year of the Horse as Lunar New Year arrives on 17 February 2026. Explore stories that honour tradition, family, renewal, and the richness of cultures across East and Southeast Asia. Discover heartfelt memoirs, vibrant fiction, cookbooks, and more that celebrate the spirit of the season and invite reflection, connection, and joy.

Updated January 29, 2026
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8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster
Lee, Mirinae.
Paper Book
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'Captivating' New York Times'Dazzling' Financial Times'A cracking read' Historical Novel SocietySLAVE. ESCAPE-ARTIST. MURDERER. TERRORIST. SPY. LOVER. MOTHER. TRICKSTER.At the Golden Sunset retirement home, it is not...
I am not Jessica Chen
Liang, Ann
Jenna Chen has spent her life in the shadow of her flawless cousin. Jessica Chen is so smart she gets the top score on every test. Jessica Chen is so beautiful people stop in the hallway to stare at her. Jessica Chen is so perfect she got into Harvard. And Jenna Chen will...
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You
Chung, Candice.
A memoir about saying the unsayable with food, and how our eating lives can bring us together, and sometimes - keep us apart.
Chinese postman
Castro, Brian.
Chopsticks or Fork?: Recipes and Stories from Australia's Regional Chinese Restaurants
Wong, Jennifer.
Paper Book
Chopsticks or Fork? is a collection of stories and recipes from Chinese restaurants in regional Australia, based on the six-part ABC series created by Lin Jie Kong and Jennifer Wong. The book lovingly captures the stories of ten very different families who run Chinese...
Complete illustrated guide to chinese cooking, the
Souksisavanh, Orathay
Chinese is one of the world's most beloved cuisines, but cooking Chinese food at home can still feel daunting to many. The Complete Illustrated Guide to Chinese Cooking breaks down 100 classic recipes, demystifying ingredients and techniques and inspiring home cooks of all...
A Day in Hong Kong: A Cantonese Cookbook
Chan, ArChan.
Paper Book
The best of Hong Kong cuisine, from AM to PM. A Day in Hong Kong is a culinary journey through one of the world's most vibrant cities--a place that's bursting at the seams with incredible food and the people who love to eat it. Experience the city through its most iconic...
The emperor of Gladness : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Heartbreaking, heartwarming yet unsentimental, and savagely comic' Guardian 'Some of the most beautiful writing I've experienced in my lifetime' Oprah Winfrey READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE...
Ghost of the neon god
Napper, t R.
Paper Book
Jackson Nguyen is a petty crook living slim on the mean streets of Melbourne. When he crosses paths with a desperate, but wealthy, Chinese dissident, begging for his help, Jack responds in the only natural way: he steals her shoes. And yet, despite every effort to mind his own damn business, a wild...
Guts: ; A memoir of food, failure and taking impossible chances
Leong, Melissa.
A gripping, incisive and darkly funny memoir from food and style icon and MasterChef Australia's first female judge, Melissa Leong.
Lady Tan's Circle Of Women
See, Lisa.
Paper Book
'Despite the inordinate limits placed on women, See allows their strengths to dominate their stories' Washington Post 'Poignant . . . quietly affecting' Time 'Emotional and illuminating' BookPage In 15th century...
The Leftover Woman
Kwok, Jean.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative family drama and riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women.
Lunar love : a novel
Jessen, Lauren Kung
Audiobook
This sweet, enemies-to-lovers rom-com filled with Chinese astrology is a perfect match for readers of Helen Hoang, Jasmine Guillory, and Sarah Adams. Always a matchmaker, never a match... Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash...
Model Minority Gone Rogue: ; How One Chinese-Australian daughter of a Tiger Mother Went Way Off Script and Created the Life She Really Wanted
Qin, Lisa.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR We all grow up with rules. Do this, be this, don't be that. Qin Qin was all about the rules: do your homework, be good, don't rock the boat. She was the model daughter, model student and model minority.
Our missing hearts
Ng, Celeste
Paper Book
THE REESE WITHERSPOON OCTOBER BOOK CLUB PICK'Governments are right to fear words. They can change hearts and topple tyrannies....It's impossible not to be moved by Margaret Miu's courage, or to applaud her craftiness...And Bird is a brave and believable character, who gives us a relatable portal...
The Poppy War Collector's Edition
Kuang, R. F.
Paper Book
Winner of the Reddit Fantasy Award for Best Debut 2018 'The best fantasy debut of 2018' - WIRED A brilliantly imaginative epic fantasy debut, inspired by the bloody history of China's twentieth century and filled with treachery and magic. When Rin aced the Keju...
Raised by wolves
Ho, Jess
Paper Book
Growing up Cantonese in the racist outer suburbs of Melbourne was hard enough for Jess Ho, but add in a dysfunctionalfamily who only ever made peace over food (and then only until the bill arrived), and it's clear that a normal life was never onthe menu for her. She emerged from her childhood with...
A Song to Drown Rivers
Liang, Ann.
Paper Book
A love story that transcends time and place.Xishi's beauty is seen as a blessing to the villagers of Yue - where the best fate for a girl is to marry well and support her family. When Xishi draws the attention of Fanli, the famous young military advisor, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to...
Spies and lies : how China's greatest covert operations fooled the world
Joske, Alex
Paper Book
Spies and Lies by Alex Joske is a groundbreaking exposé of elite influence operations by China''s little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of...
Stone Sky Gold Mountain
Riwoe, Mirandi
Paper Book
Family circumstances force siblings Ying and Lai Yue to flee their home in China to seek their fortunes in Australia. Life on the gold fields is hard, and they soon abandon the diggings and head to nearby Maytown. Once there, Lai Yue finds a job as a carrier on an overland expedition, while Ying...
Unpolished gem
Pung, Alice.
Ebook
Yellowface
Kuang, Rebecca F
Ebook
The Number One Global Sensation *Foyle's Fiction Book of the Year* *Amazon Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year* *Fiction Book of the Year 2024 - British Book Awards* 'Addictive' Grazia 'Hugely entertaining' Observer<...

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