June 8, 2019Get the Sunday Star paper tomorrow, June 9, for your 25% discount coupon on these cookbooks. Look for it in StarLifestyle.
My Rendang Isn't Crispy
Author: Zaleha Kadir Olpin
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish Cuisine
Price: RM99.90
Masterchef UK contestant Zaleha Olpin made headlines last year when the chicken in her chicken...
June 1, 2019Get the Sunday Star paper tomorrow (June 2) for a 25% discount coupon on ‘1001 Books To Read Before You Die’, when you buy the book at Kinokuniya Bookstores, Suria KLCC. Look for the coupon in StarLifestyle.
In January 2019, I made a resolution to widen the diversity of my reading pool for this column. This meant that...
May 24, 2019British writer and illustrator Judith Kerr, whose death at 95 was announced on May 23, captivated young readers around the world with her tales of a fluffy tiger coming to tea, a trouble-prone cat and her own family’s flight from Nazi Germany.
With curly hair and a mischievous smile, the petite Kerr worked well into her 90s, saying...
May 12, 2019In honour of real-life mothers everywhere on Mother’s Day today (May 12), here are 10 literary guardians we admire for how determined they are that their charges will be the best they can be.
Caroline Ingalls from Little House On The Prairie (by Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1935)
Ever resourceful and eternally patient, this woman crafts...
May 11, 2019Get the Sunday Star paper tomorrow, May 12, for your 25% discount coupon on three of these cookbooks. Look for it in StarLifestyle.
Around The World In 80 Food Trucks
Publisher: Lonely Planet Global Ltd
Price: RM99.90
It's probably a little misleading to include the word “world” in this book, seeing as Asia is very poorly...
May 10, 2019An author traces the fascinating history of the Catholic sisters who arrived in a strange land to mould strong young women (with perfect manners, of course).
May 9, 2019Malaysian writer Saras Manickam has been announced as the regional winner for the Asia category of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize competition.
My Mother Pattu, written by Saras, was picked over two other shortlisted stories - Miss Coelho, English Teacher by Indian author Kiran Doshi and Pengap, written and translated...
April 30, 2019The first Ipoh Zine Fest will be held at the Home Of Silveryouth space in Ipoh on May 1. It will feature an exhibition, distro booths and a talk on fanzine culture.
April 10, 2019Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk, who scooped last year's Man Booker International Prize for fiction, was recently named among five female nominees for this year's prestigious literary award.
Six writers in total have been shortlisted for the British-based prize which celebrates the translated English-language versions of novels from...
April 2, 2019'The Principal Girl: Feminist Tales From Asia', Malaysia’s first feminist young adult publication, offers 18 stories about strong women who will inspire a new generation.
March 13, 2019Instead of a done-to-death dystopian future or typical romance, Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf offers a locally-set young adult novel that looks at one dark day in Malaysian history through the eyes of an unusual protagonist.
March 8, 2019Over 150 writers, artists, activists and performers from more than 30 countries will take part in the 16th Ubud Writers And Readers Festival in Bali from Oct 23-27.
January 14, 2019This book features short science-fiction stories written by children who took part in the seven-month Junior Writer’s Programme held by freelance editor and author Brigitte Rozario.
December 29, 2018Malaysia’s literacy rate stands at almost 95% but thousands of children in rural and urban-poor areas, as well as refugee children, still lack access to books. A social-entrepreneur project called BookMyHappiness is determined to change that.
December 12, 2018When the world's most literate country celebrates the 100th anniversary of its independence, what better present to give itself than a state-of-the-art library?
December 4, 2018Hamsurie Haji Waslie been working for 14 hours a day for the past 10 years. At times, he’s even had to go without sleep so that he could complete the work to his satisfaction.
October 2, 2018There's a thriving trade in pirated reads in Rabat, Morroco, that is doing wonders for literacy levels. However, it vexes Moroccan bookshops that are losing trade because of illegal copies of books.
