A love story tangled with mystery
Title: The ReturnAuthor: Nicholas SparksCategory: Fiction, Romance, ContemporaryISB Code: 9780751567809Publisher: Little Brown Book Group LimitedPublication Year: 2020Price: RM79.90 Nicholas Sparks’ ‘The Return’ is another love story tangled with mystery, something that the author is best known for. He is one of the most celebrated authors in recent times and has written over 20 books with […]
Don’t compete, just be more human, human
Book title: The Human Edge: How curiosity and creativity are your superpowers in the digital economyAuthor: Greg OrmePublication year: 2019Publisher: Ft Pr (US)ISBN: 9781292267883Price: RM69.90 Can we compete with artificial intelligence (AI)? Is our world becoming the world of cyborgs? What will happen or what’s left of us if we cannot compete with AI? Are […]
For those who prefer real life to fiction
Book title: True Stories of The Second World WarAuthor: Paul DownswellPublication year: 2006Publisher: Usborne Publishing LtdISBN: 9780746088210Price: RM69.90 The battle of Iwo Jima 1945 has always fascinated me. It was a story of an epic war between the US Marines and the Imperial Army of Japan during the Second World War (WWII). It was fought […]
An emotional roller coaster worth the read
Book Title: It’s Okay to Laugh : Crying Is Cool TooISBN: 9780062419385Author: Nora McInernyPublisher: Dey Street Books (US)Publication Year: 2017Price: RM79.90 Life can be hard. Really hard. In 2011, Nora McInerny’s boyfriend, Aaron, was found to have brain cancer. She married him. He died three years later. Within a six-week span, her father also died, […]
It’s fine to feel strange
Book title: Weird but Normal: EssaysAuthor: Mia MercadoPublisher: HarperOnePublished: May 19, 2020ISBN: 0062942808Price: Approximately RM49.98 (US$11.99 on Amazon) Growing up, I wished I had an elder sister to confide in. I have an elder brother and although we are close, there are just some things that I find difficult to discuss with him or confide […]
Engaging, fun and uplifting
Book title: This Time Next YearAuthor: Sophie CousensPublication year: 2020Publisher: Arrow BooksISBN: 9780593191200Price: RM49.90 This Time Next Year is the debut novel of Sophie Cousens, a former TV producer in London, who now lives in Jersey. I was drawn to this book because of its intriguing title. At this point in time, like all Malaysians […]
In search of a celebrated novelist
Book Title: Ways to DisappearISBN: 9780316298476Author: Idra NoveyPublisher: Back Bay BooksPublication Year: 2017Price: RM79.90 A novel starring a novelist can often seem a little pleased with itself, as if the author is looking over her shoulder, eager to make a great drama from a greatly uneventful thing. “Ways to Disappear” is the first novel by […]
Courtroom drama at its finest
Book Title: ThirteenISBN: 9781409170679Author: Steve CavanaghPublisher : Orion Publishing CoPublication Year: 2018Price: RM49.90 The hook for Thirteen is ‘the serial killer isn’t on trial, he’s on the jury‘. It’s a tantalising statement that makes you want to find out how the story will play out. How could you not be at least somewhat intrigued? But […]
The ultimate tale of revenge
BY JUARY MESA Book Title: The Count of Monte CristoISBN: 9780140373530Author: Alexandre DumasPublisher: Puffin (GB)Publication Year: 1996 ReissuedPrice: RM25 Written in 1844, “The Count of Monte Cristo” is one of Alexandre Dumas’ best loved novels and is a tale of adventure, revenge and deceit with a love story at its core. It is a fantastic […]
An interesting but imperfect work of Japanese feminism
Book Title: Territory of LightISBN: 9780241312629Author: Yuko TsushimaPublisher : Penguin Classics (GB)Publication Year: 2019Price: RM55 This lovely, melancholy novel painstakingly documents a year in one young woman’s life. A woman and her husband are looking for an apartment. It’s not for them to share; her husband is leaving her but wants to find her a […]
