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...
Tim Mackintosh-Smith in conversation with Gareth Richards Arabs: A 3,000-Year History of Peoples, Tribes and Empires (Yale University Press) Wednesday 15 January 2020 | 8.00–10.00pm The Book Tim Mackintosh-Smith has written what is widely acknowledged to be the best single-volume history of the Arabs in the English language. Arabs covers...
Eclectic Cultures for All: The Development of the Peranakan Performing, Visual and Materials Arts in Penang Tan Sooi Beng, Grace Choong Ai May and Sarena Abdullah Wednesday 8 January 2020 | 8.00–10.00pm Eclectic Cultures for All is an impressive and innovative study of the unique Peranakan culture of Penang,...
DIARY OF ONE WHO DISAPPEARED Join us this Saturday for the latest Books@Hikayat event, co-organised by the bookshop. Here are the details: Book Launch and Meet the Author Diary of One Who Disappeared (Epigram Books) by Jason Erik Lundberg Saturday 4 May 2019 4.00–6.00pm Jason Erik Lundberg’s Diary of One Who Disappeared has just...
Gerakbudaya Bookshop will once again be the official bookseller to the award-winning George Town Literary Festival this year. The festival dates are 22–25 November 2018. The theme for this year's edition is "The State of Freedom". The theme was decided before the recent Malaysian election – and this...
We have just concluded an arrangement for specially discounted prices on Cambridge University Press titles focusing on Malaysia. Recent highlights include Sumit K. Mandal's Becoming Arab: Creole Histories and Modern Identity in the Malay World (2017), Rachel Leow's Taming Babel: Language in the Making of Malaysia (2017), winner...
Venue: Penang House of Music, Level 4, KOMTAR Date: Sunday 5 November 2017, 4.00pm–6.00pm A celebration of the publication of the new edition of 'Rosalie and Other Love Songs' by Saidah Rastam. → Illustrated talk → Q&A | Signing session → Music by the James Boyle Trio and Bihzhu → Refreshments Beautiful...
The Penang launch of Marco Ferrarese's engaging new book, The Travels of Marco Yolo (Gerakbudaya). Date: Sunday 22 October 2017, 7.00pm Venue: Sinkeh, 15 Lebuh Melayu, George Town, Penang Hitch-hiking along Malaysia’s Federal Highway with one exponent of each of the nation’s ethnic groups. Hanging out with ISIS-affiliated...
The Penang launch of Edmund Terence Gomez's important new study of Malaysia's political economy, Minister of Finance Incorporated: Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia (IDEAS). Date: Saturday 9 September 2017, 8.00pm Venue: Penang Institute, Brown Road, George Town, Penang In this study of Malaysia’s new political economy, Edmund...