World Editions

06/04/2026

Get • It was a pleasure having over this week to sign so many copies of “Goodbye Chinatown” 🥮🥮🥮Get your signed copy now in store or online at WWW.WELBOOKS.CO.UK

06/03/2026

There’s nothing better than your authors and translators supporting each other 🥰🥰🥰!

Love seeing and together at the launch of at yesterday!

06/02/2026

Publishing Today: Goodbye Chinatown by !

Amber Fan, a young Oxford-educated chef, opens the first Chinese fusion joint in London’s Chinatown following the failure of her father’s traditional restaurant. When her parents decide to return to Hong Kong, taking with them their young son Bobby as well as the haunting secret surrounding his birth, Amber is left alone in London. Set in the aftermath of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese rule, Goodbye Chinatown shows a family torn between two countries. Amber throws herself into her career to escape the painful cycle of family separations and reunions. The tastes and smells spark off every page in Kit Fan’s latest novel, making for a truly multisensorial reading experience. Offering a behind-the-scenes of this iconic hub of London’s hospitality economy, and using food to reflect on identity, Goodbye Chinatown paints a portrait of an enterprising émigré who, faced with divided loyalties, invents her own language for home through the culinary arts.

“An insightful, reflective, and tender exploration of indescribable familial bonds, whether food, ambition, memories, or national loyalties. Goodbye Chinatown shares different perspectives on being Hong Kongese, particularly in the context of the British handover to China. Fan comprehensively portrays a changing Hong Kong alongside developments in London’s Chinatown, delivering a touching look at the search for home." ―

“Kit Fan writes place like no one else, using an émigré’s metonymic key. A totality too large and painful to hold all at once comes to us in gradually accumulated detail—through dishes, proverbs that don’t quite translate, memories of sudden calamity. Goodbye Chinatown is not an elegy to Hong Kong, nor a love letter, nor anything so blandly digestible; rather it is an embodiment, an ongoing navigation and a refusal to deny agency to characters who neither escape seismic political shifts nor lose the vibrancy that makes you desperately care for them to the last page. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the lived generational texture of what’s happening now in Hong Kong.” ― author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple

05/24/2026

Get • The Cracks We Bear by Catalina Infante

“There’s so little I know about you for certain, and it will never be enough for me to tell our story.”

This novella tells the story of motherhood through two perspectives: a young mother adjusts to first time motherhood whilst also reflecting on the relationship she had with her own mother. It’s a story told through vignettes, which mix present moments in Chile with trips down memory lane through photographs taken in Cuba and postcards from France.

The story vulnerably explores the different kinds of distance she feels with both parents. There’s a silence that characterises her relationship with her mother and the sense of a past life that is deeply tucked away whilst her father is mostly physically absent and the relationship is quite sporadic. Feelings of loss, confusion and sadness rise to the surface of this novel whilst Infante also captures the political climate of the time.

I found the novel a beautiful exploration of navigating new life phases with some vignettes bursting with life whilst others were more contemplative. Michelle Mirabella’s translation is incredibly smooth and I particularly enjoyed her translator’s note at the end, which shed light on her thought process for picking this title. I simply really enjoyed reading this one💗

05/22/2026

[𝐍𝐄𝐖 Cha: An Asian Literary Journal 𝐑𝐄𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖] Jonathan Han reviews Kit Fan's 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 (World Editions, 2026):

/ Counting this one, mine is the fifth review of 𝐺𝑜𝑜𝑑𝑏𝑦𝑒 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛 published in 𝐶ℎ𝑎. I have never believed in such a thing as too much criticism, whether favourable or unfavourable, especially given the potency of the book and the high quality of the reviews published thus far. However, this frequency raises the question of why the novel is capable of inspiring so many of my contemporaries to write, at times at considerable length, about it. /

𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃: https://chajournal.com/2026/04/29/kit-fan-goodbye-chinatown/
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05/22/2026

05/21/2026

Get • 🖋Carolina Pihelgas participated in the European Writers’ Festival at the British Library together with 24 writers from across Europe. Carolina presented her book The Cut Line and its fresh English translation at the panel “Back to Nature”.

It was a privilege to host Carolina at the Festival and in London, and wonderful to see such a positive response from the audience. Hoping to welcome Carolina again soon!

📸Jam Pond Photography

05/21/2026

The heart of literature beats in Prague! And I got to discover Prague’s literary scene thanks to .hulova.180 - from the amazing Prague Book World hosted by to the support for the literary arts from organizations such as to magical places like Shakespeare and Sons where I spotted Juli Zeh’s New Year, translated by and of course The Movement, translated by .
Not to mention the Kafka Museum and book tower in the Municipal Library! And did you know the average Czech citizen reads 10 books a year?!?!

05/17/2026

Get • I am very much looking forward to this day week, Sunday May 24th, when I’ll be in Dublin to moderate an event with Estonian author, Carolina Pihelgas, as part of

We’ll be talking about her remarkable novel, The Cut Line, translated by Darcy Hurford, and published earlier this year by

It follows a young woman called Liine, who runs away from a toxic relationship to seek refuge in a summer house close to the Russian border. The setting is intensely atmospheric; Liine is at once surrounded by unruly nature and existing in the shadow of a noisy, ominous NATO military base.

It’s a very short novel that encompasses some very big issues, big feelings, rigorous language and potent metaphors.

Please do join us if you can!