We are absolutely delighted to announce the literary event of the year – The House of Doors: Tan Twan Eng in Conversation with Karina Robles Bahrin – a real highlight of this year’s George Town Festival. ➽ The event Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng returns home to...
Friday 23 June, 7.30pm We are delighted that Books@Hikayat returns with a special event. It features one of Malaysia’s finest writers, the award-winning Saras Manickam, speaking both to her debut short-story collection and to the wider question of why we, as humans, tell stories. Saraswill be...
The anticipated novel fro mthe Booker-shortlisted author Tan Twan Eng ...
TO NOURISH WITH LOVE Manju Saigal and Bettina Chua Abdullah with Dipika Mukherjee Saturday 26 November 2022 4.00–6.00pm Free admission ➽ The book From a childhood lived in India’s cool Mussoorie hills to a cook’s coming of age in the sultry, tropical Malaysian heat. To Nourish with Love encompasses a breadth of...
Copies of Karina Robles Bahrin's superb Epigram Books Fiction Prize winner, The Accidental Malay, are now back on our shelves. You can order it online here: https://gerakbudayapenang.com/product/fiction-poetry/the-accidental-malay/ ...
We are delighted that Books@Hikayat returns with a very special event. It features two of Malaysia’s most eloquent, powerful writers: Karina Robles Bahrin and Preeta Samarasan. Under the deliberately piquing theme – Women on the Verge of a Holy Breakdown – Karina and Preeta will...
Salleh Ben Joned died earlier this week. There are moving tributes to him everywhere, from those who knew him better than we did – for the poet, the essayist, the teacher, the critic, the actor, the force of nature, the warm, engaging, inimitable man. He...
The past month has been tough for the bookshop – as for many businesses. But it's still with a spring in our collective step that we highlight the bestsellers for last month. At the top of the pile there's a welcome return for Bettina Chua...
Hanna Alkaf, The Weight of Our Skies(Simon & Schuster)Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (Penguin)Zadie Smith, On Beauty (Penguin)A Shukor Rahman, More Penang Stories (Self-published)Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Vintage)Philip Bowring, Empire of the Winds (I.B. Tauris)Atul Gawande, Being Mortal (Profile Books)Nathalie Wright,...
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Canongate)Bettina Chua Abdullah(ed.), Telltale Food (Hikayat)Kong Tsung-gan, Liberate Hong Kong (Mekong)Lloyd Fernando, Green Is the Colour (Epigram Books)Sandeep Ray, A Flutter in the Colony (HarperCollins India)Preeta Samarasan, Evening Is the Whole Day (Fourth Estate)Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains...