Sunday, 24 November 2024
Sunday, 24 November 2024
Old is definitely gold. Used books still remain a preferred choice for Malaysians to enrich knowledge despite the variety of gadgets available in the market nowadays. A Bernama survey came...
Read moreJapan opened what organisers are billing as the world's first "Otaku" summit Saturday, drawing visitors from around the world as the country looks to boost the international fan base for Japanese...
Read moreEva Gabrielsson doesn't mince her words: continuing the wildly successful Millennium trilogy written by her late partner Stieg Larsson is a mistake and should never have happened. The...
Read moreAuthor Paula Hawkins' debut thriller, "The Girl on the Train," kept the top spot on the US bestsellers list for the ninth consecutive week. Data from independent and chain bookstores, book...
Read moreIt took him 13 years to write and publish it, or as he puts it, "my 30s", but US author Akhil Sharma won the second annual Folio literary prize and 40,000 pounds (RM218,913) for his novel "Family...
Read moreThe finalists for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize were announced in Cape Town yesterday, with 10 authors from around the world contending for the 60,000 pound (around RM329, 732)...
Read moreA British journalist's book on her China experience is packed with the pillow talk of the young middle class in a country where social values have not kept pace with economic growth. The...
Read moreDana Cowin, the editor-in-chief of Food and Wine magazine, shares lessons and tips she learned from some of the best chefs in the world in her first cookbook, “Mastering My Mistakes in the...
Read moreJapan is set to hold what organisers are billing as the world's first "Otaku" summit this weekend as the country looks to boost the international fan base for Japanese comic books and...
Read moreAuthor Paula Hawkins' debut thriller, "The Girl on the Train," held on tight to the No. 1 spot on the US bestsellers list for the eighth consecutive week. Data from independent and chain...
Read moreCult US teen author Veronica Roth has come a long way in only a few years. And it seems her next step — at least, in a literary sense — will be into space. The 26-year-old published her debut...
Read moreThousands of fans of British author Terry Pratchett signed a petition on Friday asking "Death" – one of the characters in his best-selling Discworld science-fantasy novels – to revive...
Read moreWhat started as a project to turn internet music sensation Jonathan Coulton's music into a graphic novel has evolved into "The Princess Who Saved Herself," a children's book that offers a modern...
Read moreThe Baileys Women's Prize announced its 2015 longlist yesterday night, with 11 previously nominated authors joining five who've made the list with their debut novels. Among the longlistees,...
Read moreAn ongoing project to adapt classic literature to manga is readying its next round of titles: Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations," Jane Austen's "Emma" and Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet...
Read moreDavid Mitchell remembers the day he read the memoir of a 13-year-old boy with autism — hailing it a "revelatory godsend" that offered a window on the life of his own autistic son. The...
Read moreAuthor Elizabeth McCracken won the annual Story Prize for short fiction on Wednesday for “Thunderstruck and Other Stories”, her collection of tales about life-altering experiences and...
Read moreVeronica Roth, author of the "Divergent" trilogy, has a new book coming in 2017. In the meantime, what is a teen fiction fan to do? As the second "Divergent" film, "Insurgent" hits theatres...
Read moreA Seattle-based cartoonist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Forbes is reimagining Sun Tzu's classic text for the Information Age. Illustrator Jessica Hagy is the creator of the...
Read moreTintin's latest adventure is taking him to Sotheby's and Christie's in Paris this month, as booming prices for comic books attract the attention of ultra-rich collectors. Both auction houses...
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