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Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by <strong>Imogen Dewey</strong>

<strong>The long read</strong>: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now coming to an end?

Old friends: Ten of the books on China's September Top 30 in fiction had each been on the list more than 20 times in the past.

Back in full force in Frankfurt, Chinese and Filipino publishers showcase their top titles to rights buyers during  the 75th Buchmesse.

At around 140 BC during China's Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian, a royal emissary, made a journey to the West from Chang'an (present-day Xi'an in Shaanxi Province), opening an overland route linking East and West. Centuries later, in the years of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, silk routes boomed over both land and at sea. In the early 15th century, Zheng He, the famous Chinese navigator of the Ming Dynasty, made seven voyages to the Western Seas, which boosted trade along the maritime silk routes.