This slim 166-page book on Balik Pulau is written by a local. The text is descriptive. The colour photos are excellent. Read it for enjoyment.…
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007
Ian Fleming’s Double O 7 books and movies have given many readers as well as cinemagoers years of delight. On a personal level, I read…
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Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Can William Shakespeare, a country bumpkin write the plays attributed to him? These 2 books address this burning question head-on. The plays show the playwright…
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Cameron Highland – Part 2
Searching for solitude. Tanah Rata town centre and Brinchang are eyesores. They resemble cowboy towns more than quaint colonial hill stations. Beyond Brinchang is spoilt…
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Cameron Highland – Part 1
Cameron Highlands was till the year the 2000s arguably the most quaint and charming of the 4 hill stations of British Malaya, now Malaysia. Due…
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A Many Splendored Thing – Part 2
A Many- Splendoured Thing by Dr. Han Su Yin was published in 1952 to great acclaim. A place that featured prominently in her memoir is…
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Timeless stories from India’s largest business group
The Tata Saga (2018 published) is a compilation of extracts taken from articles and books on the Tata family and their businesses. The Tatas are…
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A Many Splendored Thing – Part 1
A Many Splendored Thing was published in 1952 to great acclaim. Dr. Han Su Yin in this autobiographical memoir, disguised as a novel, has written…
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The trilogy
A classic in the true meaning of the word. Jan Morris’s trilogy of the British Empire is a masterpiece of research and erudite distillation. Spanning…
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The record of a pilgrimage to China in search of the law
Ennin is a Japanese monk. He traveled to Tang China as part of a 651-men Japanese tribute mission to the Tang emperor in AD 838.…
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