At Lunar New Year, Chinese-Australian writer Isabelle Li shares her insights into China’s dynamic literary and genre fiction; and with a nod to Valentine’s Day, she reviews Julian Barnes’ new novel, The Only Story. Crime writer Aoife Clifford reveals her past, as a shelver at a supermarket in regional Australia, feeding into the discussion of Shaun Prescott’s surreal novel, The Town, while also reviewing Attica Locke’s Bluebird Bluebird; and Irish writer Paul Lynch reveals the bookshelf that made him, and it includes Voltaire, Dante and Cormac McCarthy. So what will you read next?