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…
Beautifully written book – Eating India: Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices
This is an amazing book which I first read in 2007. The author has written a book on the different types of Indian food that…
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Well written – The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2020 This is a very impressive book. The author has clearly researched thoroughly. He has distilled the…
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Out of Africa
If you like the movie Out of Africa and like to know more of the writer of the book upon which the movie was based,…
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Unplanned purchase
I bought these 2 novels in 1980 from an Indian bookstore in Wisma ENE, Pudu Road. The front tenant was Magnum. I recall I had…
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By VS Naipaul – Trilogy on India
The late Sir VS Naipaul is one of the best English prose writers in history. Here is his famous trilogy on India, his ancestral home.…
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By Tom Bingham
The late Tom Bingham is recognised as the top English judge of his generation. No lawyer worth his salt should have these 2 books of…
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A gem – Within the Walls of Tun Tan Siew Sin’s Ancestral Home
This book is a ” labour of passion” as Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon puts it in his foreword ” The Genesis of This…
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The unsinkable – The Titanic
The Titanic is one of my favourite subjects. Here are the best books, a movie, a miniseries and a National Geographic mag on this sinking…
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Romantic movies for MCO
Here are 2 of my 3 favourite romantic movies. These 2 are feel-good movies, unlike the third. Four Weddings and a Funeral have a more…
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An average documentary – The Great Wall of China
This documentary is rather slow and tedious. Because of the use of extended re-enactments for this production, the story bogs down tremendously. Strictly for people…
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