24 Dec Fong Ling’s Books of the Year

While we wait for our readers to send in their choices of favourite books of 2014, here we present the choices of the bookshop team. Fong Ling, our lovely bookshop manager, gives us her three nominations:

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Chin Yoon Khen’s Traditional Trades of Penang (Areca).

“This nicely designed and fully illustrated book is the fruit of the author’s passion for the products and livelihoods of Penang’s traditional artisans – and why they remain so important to the island’s way of life.”

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Kee Thuan Chye’s Can We Save Malaysia, Please! (Marshall Cavendish).

“This is the latest from the no-holds-barred columnist who dares to ask the right questions in his usual cavalier style.”

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Rosalind Chua and Artur Shirin’s Twee & the Mysterious Howl (Clarity Publishing).

“is the perfect children’s book, the tale of a nocturnal hunt through dark streets teeming with creepy creatures, with a mystery to be solved.”