Sunday, 24 November 2024
Sunday, 24 November 2024
Fictional boy wizard Harry Potter made his first appearance in seven years on Monday, featuring as a nearly 34-year-old with grey hairs in a new short story by author J.K. Rowling (pic). In an...
Read moreStephen King in 2002 announced he was retiring. He was 54. He told the Los Angeles Times he was not going to "finish up like Harold Robbins". Robbins, who shot to fame with “The Carpetbaggers”,...
Read moreThe first entry in Victoria Aveyard's upcoming young adult trilogy wears its colours on its sleeve: silver for the book's elite rulers, red for the revolutionary rabble. Viewed from one angle,...
Read moreEvie Wyld's tale of sheep farming, a hidden hunter and a troubled past is this year's winner of the Miles Franklin Award, valued at A$60,000 (about RM181,690) Set up in 1957 by "My Brilliant...
Read moreThe Japanese version of the graphic novel, 'Kampung Boy', by national cartoonist Datuk Mohammad Khalid or 'Lat' as he is popularly known, will be among the publications that Malaysia will display...
Read moreBest known as a pioneer in children's and young adult fiction, US author Judy Blume is to aim her next work at an adult audience, with a new book set for midway through 2015. "I'm both thrilled...
Read moreHalfway through reading this book you’ll want to take up a placard, march down Kuala Lumpur and stage a protest. Oh, the drama. The book’s titled “Can we save Malaysia, please!” and that’s just...
Read moreIt's not that Margaret Mitchell didn't give a damn whether Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler would ever get back together again in "Gone with the Wind". She simply didn't know, according to...
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