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...
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...
REHMAN RASHID (1955–2017). "The stories go on forever; they'd outlast eternity if they could." It was with great sadness that we heard this morning of the death of our friend, Rehman Rashid. He suffered a major heart attack while out cycling in January, and never recovered....
It’s been a great privilege and pleasure over the past year and more to help produce a really wonderful – and unique – publication. The subject matter is close to our heart: the glove puppet theatre of East and Southeast Asia – known as potehi...
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami. Many of us will never forget that day when an undersea earthquake off the coast of Indonesia sent a wall of water surging across the Indian Ocean. When the water hit land, thousands of...