Books Asia was founded in 1985 by retired teacher Mahmudul Haq. We are an established supplier of multi-cultural books to Public Libraries, Education and Religious Sectors, and HM Prison Services.

Asian languages include Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Kurdish, Chinese, Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and Tamil.

European languages include Albanian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian and Russian.

Also available are books in English, published in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Books can be serviced to NAG guidelines, with any necessary re-binding, labelling and transliteration - all facilitated by our bespoke IT System. We can provide UKMarc or Marc21 records. Furthermore, RFID barcode encoding will be introduced in 3Q09.

Our customers include Birmingham, Bradford, Hull, Leeds and Manchester Public Libraries; Westgate Community College in Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Derby EFA Services and the J.B Priestly Library at the University of Bradford.

The mainstay of our business is long-term Local Authority contracts. We are familiar with Library processes.
We support Library Technology. We utilise Bibliographical standards. And we understand Readership needs.
Our experience, service and value is unrivalled in this sector. We look forward to working with you.