Humans have long recognised the importance and value of maps to their lives. Indeed, maps are extraordinary documents that have transformed the way we view the globe forever. Here are two gorgeous books that present the ways that Southeast Asia has been imagined by generations...
The bookshop will be closed today (Thursday) for New Year and back open again as normal on Friday. These are sombre and sobering times for Malaysia – with the memories of tragedies and the flooding catastrophe still very much present. We are also beset with...
The world lost some extraordinary writers in 2014 – some better known than others. Here are some of our favourites – whose words and our memory of them live on. RIP. From top (L to R): Maya Angelou (American author, poet, dancer, actress and singer). Christopher...
One of the great things about the bookshop is that it has become a magnet – a meeting place, a hang-out space – for all kinds of people involved in making books: writers, of course, but translators, editors and publishers too. Here's a rogues' gallery...
This is the last of the bookshop team's favourite books of the year – and here are Gareth's nominations. All the titles are on the shelves and here they're in alphabetical order: [column col="1/4"] [/column] Donna J. Amoroso, Traditionalism and the Ascendancy of the Malay Ruling Class in...
There's no doubt that Chuah Guat Eng possesses one of the most distinctive and accomplished voices in contemporary Malaysian English-language literature. When she visited the bookshop recently she offered – quietly and authoritatively – a sense of her quest to understand the world around us:...
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: [column col="1/4"] [/column] Chin Yoon Khen's Traditional Trades of Penang (Areca). "This nicely...
We will be closing the bookshop tomorrow (Thursday) for Christmas Day. We will be open as normal on Friday. We would like to send seasonal greetings to all our friends who have supported us since we opened doors on May Day – and who have...
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...