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About the Costa Book Awards

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:15:31 GMT

Choosing Andrew Miller’s Pure as the Book of the Year in this year’s Costa Book Awards was no easy task.

Miniature artistry

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:27 GMT

Tots to Teens: By DAPHNE LEE.

We can do this

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:19:31 GMT

Let’s turn the music up on the stereo, not the iPod, let’s read a print book not a Kindle, and let’s interact outside of Facebook and Twitter.

Bestsellers

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:17:58 GMT

For the week ending Jan 29, 2012.

Break a boy’s heart

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:31:39 GMT

JUNIOR READING ROOM - Compiled by DAPHNE LEE

Greed destroys

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:23:40 GMT

That creaky truism is given new life by a rich, entertaining and utterly compelling book from the 2008 Booker Prize winner.

Refreshing change

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:22:48 GMT

The Beruas Prophecy - Review by DAPHNE LEE

Informed decisions

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:21:08 GMT

Whether you decide to take on board this book’s message or not is up to you. But we’re sure you’ll have fun deciding!

Learning the ropes

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:19:39 GMT

WORLDS OF WONDER - Review by KALEON RAHAN

Galaxie unveils new look

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:09:42 GMT

With the New Year comes a new look. Fresh and exciting Galaxie has expanded its pages for fuller entertainment coverage as well as to creatively showcase all the very best and latest in showbiz news, features and gossip.

Gathering for book lovers

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:40:37 GMT

A COMMON stereotype of literary gatherings is that they are pretentious affairs: elderly professors in tweed and monocles smoking pipes as they discuss old classics that no one has picked up in a hundred years. This, however, was not the case at the celebration of Readings’ seventh anniversary, which took place at the Seksan Gallery in Bangsar, Kuala Lumpur, earlier this month.

Catching pivotal moments

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:37:11 GMT

A writer faced a fork in his life’s path and took the road less travelled.

Reading for success

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:34:52 GMT

India’s business books are taking off like never before.

Living in the ‘now’

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:06:14 GMT

It’s where you are now in your life that counts.

Tell the world about this book

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:06:14 GMT

One Hundred And One Nights fictitiously captures and re-enacts some of the horrific vignettes of a war-bedeviled nation.

Sweeping, colourful yarn

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:06:14 GMT

Like our reviewer, you’ll thank the author for this beautiful tale.

Dark angel

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:06:14 GMT

It takes a particular twist of the imagination to conjure up scary rather than benign celestial beings.

Bestsellers

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:00:25 GMT

For the month of January, 2012.

Malaysian mystery

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:17:42 GMT

Reading Room, compiled by ROUWEN LIN.

Fruit of Dionysus

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:00:18 GMT

Worlds of Wonder, by Elizabeth Tai.

Bestsellers

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:02:43 GMT

Delightful tales

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 08:55:44 GMT

There are choices aplenty if you’re looking for books for babies born in year of the Dragon.

Snapshots

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:52:12 GMT

Compiled by THEAN LEE CHENG.

Spill the blood

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:47:43 GMT

Worlds Wonder by KALEON RAHAN

Fate in her hands

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:46:13 GMT

Compiled by DAPHNE LEE