A feminist author collected essays from 18 Muslim women whose lives tell a different story, including her own.

The country’s oldest publisher has come to life again.

James Patterson publishes books faster than most people read them. Over a four-decade career, he’s produced 250 titles and sold more than 385 million copies.

Laksmi’s book included in the Penguin Random House India and Southeast Asia (SEA)'s inaugural catalogue is Srikandi (Fall Baby), her third novel but the first one written in English.

Dysfunctional families, loneliness, insecurity and, in one book, living as part of a minority in a foreign land are all parts of the world that author Nuril Basri has crafted in his books.

Three girls go to a park but only two come back. The murder of 2-year-old Kirstie Swann at the hands of two sisters Laurel and Primrose Bowman, aged 10 and 6, takes the spotlight in 'The Flower Girls' by Alice Clark-Platts.

Little Choy helps her parents finance the treatment of her sister Adele through baking. 

The Education and Culture Ministry's Language Agency has given the National Library of Indonesia a copy of the Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language (KBBI) in Braille.

Indonesian writer Rio Johan and German author Philipp Boehm came together to explore Berlin neighborhoods off the beaten path, discussing literature, culture and everything in between along the way.

Stephen King has revealed he'll be publishing a novel called "The Institute" in September that's described as a "gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don't always win."

The relationship between Irma and Bobo is documented in a book titled Bobo: The Traveling Hound.

Celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha has been awarded two prestigious grants from international writers’ association PEN, which will be used to translate and publish her most recent book.

The Rooster Bar presents main characters that get disillusioned to not only the judicial system, but economic and social system as a whole, very early in the story.

The popular annual Big Bad Wolf (BBW) book sale is slated to return to Jakarta from March 1-11. 

Investment firm Man Group is ending its long-running sponsorship of Britain's prestigious Man Booker prizes for novels, both sides announced on Sunday.

The annual Cairo International Book Fair opened this week in a shiny new venue far away from the city's historic book souk.

The author of the blockbuster "Fifty Shades of Grey" novels is returning with a new, erotic book that she calls a "Cinderella romance for the 21st century."

Japanese manga creator Rumiko Takahashi has become only the second woman to win the top prize at France's biggest graphic novel festival. 

A total of 1.3 million poetry books were sold in 2018 alone, with two-thirds of its buyers younger than 34 years old, as per UK book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan. 

Library and Archives Canada announced Wednesday it had acquired a rare 1944 book that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.

A beloved Jakarta secondhand bookstore, Bengkel Deklamasi, nestled in a corner of the Taman Ismail Marzuki (TIM) cultural center, is to soon become history.

“The London Book Fair is not entirely about books,” said Laura, “There will be cross-media promotion. Good content can be translated into anything, from movies to games.”

“A translation is an act of reassembling a body. Tiffany has given a sound to my voice. The translation process is as important as the writing itself," said Norman Erikson Pasaribu, author of Sergius Seeks Bacchus.

Online platforms continue to shine, offering comfort to get your hands on a wide range of things, including your preferred books.

A British company plans to launch a Braille e-reader for blind people this year.

Former journalist Herry Gendut Janarto showcases a very fluid writing style in the biography that tells the story of Indonesia’s dance maestro Didik Nini Thowok.

The Jakarta Post talks to Hanif about his newest book Red Birds, a satire on the American military and foreign policy.

Twenty-seven-year old Irish author Sally Rooney has become the youngest-ever Novel winner in the Costa Book Awards.

Seasoned American journalist Michael Vatikiotis believes in the power of people to address protracted conflicts in Southeast Asia.

With Britain's decision to leave the EU exposing fault lines across society, fiction writers are responding with an increasing array of Brexit-infused work -- from state-of-the-nation novels to futuristic satire.