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...
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/ ...
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...
The Penang launch of Bernice Chauly's outstanding debut novel, Once We Were There (Epigram Books). Journalist Delonix Regia chances upon the cultured and irresistible Omar amidst the upheaval of the Reformasi movement in Kuala Lumpur. As the city roils around them, they find solace in love,...
The wheel of time turns and we welcome the new month by looking back at the bestsellers' list for April. It contains both familiar titles but also newcomers. Top of the pops is the brilliant memoir by our good friend, the late Benedict Anderson, A...
The ebb and flow of what our customers buy is always fascinating, and there are two outstanding patterns: books about Penang and visual books, sometimes in tandem. But top of the pile, thanks to the book launch at Penang Institute, is the lively collection of...
It's already the first day of the new month – with the time seemingly passing in a blur – and an opportune moment to look back at what moved off our shelves last month. Thanks to the Penang launch, Punk, Penentangan dan Politik Transnasionalisme [Punk,...
JANUARY BESTSELLERS. It's time to reveal the hot picks for the first month of the new year. One clear theme is the longevity of some of our customers' favourite books. For the second month running the latest book from Zunar, Wasabi (Wa Sapu Billion) came...