Yangsze Choo

Oh my goodness! The Fox Wife just made the Final 4 for Jimmy Fallon’s book club on The Tonight Show! It felt surreal to watch him arrange all the books on his desk… Thank you, thank you, thank you to all the friends and readers who’ve been voting along—I really…

With HUGE thanks to all of you, The Fox Wife has made it to the next round of Jimmy Fallon’s book club on The Tonight Show! You can watch the clip of Jimmy announcing it here: Voting is open until Tuesday April 2, and you can vote up to 10…

I am absolutely gobsmacked that THE FOX WIFE, is a finalist for Jimmy Fallon’s book club on The Tonight Show! 16 books were chosen, and each week half will be eliminated March Madness style by voting. I’m so thrilled (and can’t quite believe this is happening)! You can see Jimmy’s intro…

Happy Lunar New Year! May the year of the Dragon bring you peace, luck, and a 龙 happy life! The red and pink camellias are blooming in my small garden, and it was lovely to see them after a week of storms in California. On a separate note, my NPR…

Thank you so much to Publisher’s Weekly and writer Hamilton Cain for this lovely interview about my upcoming third novel, The Fox Wife. I really enjoyed chatting with you! Link to full interview.

It is now 2023 and 10 years after my first novel, The Ghost Bride, was published. In the intervening decade, I’ve written two more books, but I still have no idea what to wear to literary type events. This is a very sad state of affairs that I can only…

Oh my goodness! The Night Tiger is a Big Jubilee Read selection for Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, celebrating fiction across the Commonwealth and spearheaded by BBC Arts and The Reading Agency. 70 titles, ten books for each decade of her reign, were selected. One book for each decade will be…

I’ve discovered over the years that not all ideas that seemed brilliant at 10pm ought to be in one’s novel. In fact, even if they feature adorable puppies and fried noodles, they sometimes have to be resisted… Thanks so much to Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine for featuring this article!…

Sometimes there’s nothing like curling up with a good book that you already know you love. Here are some of my recommendations for favourite rereads! Thanks so much to Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine for featuring this article!  

I’m not quite sure how I’m typing because I’m feeling pretty incoherent, but THE NIGHT TIGER has been chosen as Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine’s Book Club! Now that it’s had a few days to sink in, I’m still awed and so very, very grateful. Thank you so much, Reese…