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. Liani, the bookshop's outreach manager, gives us her three nomination: [column col="1/4"] [/column] Brian Stoddart's A Madras Miasma: A Superintendent Le Fanu Mystery...
We are proud to have been involved (through Impress Creative & Editorial) as the editors of this important new book – Politics of the Temporary: An Ethnography of Migrant Life in Urban Malaysia. For more than three decades Malaysia’s economic growth has been driven in...
Usually the publication of a new book by Haruki Murakami elicits all kinds of fanfares and enormous snaking queues that weave zealously round bookshops. (We can dream!) But this month's publication of The Strange Library seems to have slipped a bit under the radar. First...
We're fortunate to have acquired rare copies of two pioneering studies of Malay dance forms by Mohd Anis Md Nor. In Zapin: Folk Dance of the Malay World (Oxford University Press, 1993) he offers a detailed examination of the zapin dance form, as it evolved...
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. Jaime is the bookshop's web content manager and here are her three nominations: [column col="1/4"] [/column] Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others (novel)...
Heritage Trees of Penang – is very close to our hearts and it's been absent too long from our shelves. But we've located a cache of them and now they're waiting for you to discover. Simon Gardner and Lai Ee May's text offers an accessible...
We're waiting to hear from you! It's that time of year to look back and choose our favourite books of 2014. The team at the bookshop will be providing their choices over the coming days. But we'd love to hear from you – our Facebook...
One of the runaway bestsellers over the past few months has been unusual: the ingenious card game which is a tongue-in-cheek reflection of the Malaysian political climate called Politiko – the game of Malaysian politics. Devised by the professional troublemakers at LoyarBurok, the game is...
Goh Hun Meng has been a good friend of the bookshop since its inception – he designed our logo, the signage, the pavement A board and all our bags. A few months ago he opened Ottokedai on Lebuh Victoria, as a new space selling handicrafts,...
When it was announced that Patrick Modiano had won this year's Nobel Prize for literature most people in the parochial world of English-language letters had little or no idea who he was. (Fact: less than 3 per cent of literary titles published in the US...