A Biography of Cao Cao
Rafe de Crespigny is an Australian sinologist, now aged 90. He specialises in the history of the Han dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period. His…
Out in the Midday Sun
This history of the British in Malaya 1880- 1960 is wonderfully evocative. Margaret Shennan has an excellent command of the sources. This wonderful book is…
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12 days of Christmas
Advent is the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas. It is a time to prepare spiritually for Christmas. It leads to Christmas Eve, Christmas Day,…
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Missee
Margaret Shennan is justly known as the author of Out in the Midday Sun – The British in Malaya 1880 – 1960. Born in Kuching,…
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Cameron Highlands – Part 4
Nothing like starting this memoir of life in Mittel Europa at 7 am 16 degrees Celcius, Cameron Highlands Resort, 23 December 2021. Travel writing is…
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A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
This is the best-loved of Charles Dicken’s three Christmas Books. My Boxing Day reading. This carol in prose implied the two main protagonists are Jews.…
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To walk in Beauty: Cameron Highlands – Part 3
A walk along Griddle Road encircling the Tanah Rata golf course is therapeutic. The greens, the quietness, the hills, and clouds at the far horizon…
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Lakehouse Cameron Highlands – Part 2
The late Colonel Forster owned the Lakehouse and Ye Olde Smokehouse. These two hotels and YTL Cameron Highlands Resort by the Golf Course, are the…
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Downton Abbey – Part 1
I have always loved the period of English history pre-World War 1. In particular, the era from 1800 to 1913. The old world moving to…
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Lakehouse Hotel – Part 1
Lakehouse in Cameron Highlands is an excellent stop for lunch if one is not staying there. The patio where one has the meals has excellent…
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More Christmas Crackers
More Christmas Crackers 1980- 1989 by John Julius Norwich is a compilation of 10 years of annual literary anthologies that he sent to his friends…
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