By The Book: 2021 Epigram Books UK to cease publishing in January
Epigram Books UK is set to stop publishing from January 2021. “Our business in Singapore has suffered to such anContinue Reading
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By The Book: 2021 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Award Ceremony open to public
The Epigram Books Fiction Prize Award is upon us again, and before you know it, the local publisher will beContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Book Review: GE2020 – Fair or Foul? by Bertha Henson
A useful compendium for all that went down in GE2020. The 2020 Singapore General Elections were an unprecedented one –Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Book Review: Robert Yeo at Eighty – A Celebration (edited by Dr Ismail S. Talib)
A celebration of a literary pioneer in one book. Birthday parties are all about making the birthday boy feel goodContinue Reading
By The Book: An Interview with Ashley Chan and Gerrie Lim, co-authors of Scarlet Harlot – My Double Life
Ashley Chan seems to have it all figured out. University student by day, she’s somehow managed to find a nightContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Book Review: Scarlet Harlot – My Double Life by Ashley Chan and Gerrie Lim
Revealing the life of a Singaporean sex worker in this tell-all memoir. It’s 2020, and high time we acknowledge thatContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Book Review: Calm – A Journal For Myself by PK Poniah
Keep calm and carry on. With how awful 2020 has turned out to be, it’s more important than ever toContinue Reading
★★★☆☆ Book Review: Sherlock Sam and the Seafaring Scourge on Sentosa by A.J. Low
Crime-solving child sleuths take to Singapore’s offshore islands. I’ll admit, despite it being the fifteenth book in the series, thisContinue Reading
★★★★☆ Book Review: Riverrun by Danton Remoto
Capturing the intersection of a tumultuous adolescence and national tragedy through beautifully wrought language. The bildungsroman form has long beenContinue Reading
★★☆☆☆ Book Review: Bukit Brown by Sun Jung
A meander through the annals of time that leaves us wanting more. Because of the controversial plan to exhume itsContinue Reading
