Oppression and discrimination - Chinese novelist Bi Feiyu captures it all too well through the lives of three ill-fated Wang sisters growing up during the Cultural Revolution. The story may be...
Amazon Kindle 3 Commuter Series
Well known for tough casings that protect mobile devices, OtterBox has released a protective shell for the Amazon Kindle 3 e-book reader. This casing has two parts: a silicon rubber that...
The Paris Wife
Fiction based on real figures in history is a fraught field. Hilary Mantel pulled it off with Wolf Hall, told from the perspective of Thomas Cromwell, an adviser to England's...
WISH YOU WERE HERE
WISH YOU WERE HERE By Graham Swift In literature, the polysyllabic, multi- word sentence enchants with its eloquence. In real life, short, simple phrases strike straight to the heart. When truly...
MISTAKEN
Mistaken is an eerie tale of existential angst and mistaken identity, presented with elegant eloquence and Gothic atmosphere instead of the rhythmic slang and syntax favoured by many Irish writers. One...
The Holmes Affair
Sherlock Holmes is an icon of the mystery and crime genre, a fictional detective instantly recognisable and still inspiring spin-offs more than a century after his creation. The violin-playing investigator of...
Gone Case
The first of a two-part story, Gone Case is an adaptation of Chua's novel of the same name, which won the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award in 1996. Set in a...
Why Mahler?
The mere fact that this volume, from the author of Who Killed Classical Music?, a diatribe about the worldwide decline of Western classical music, was even published spells a reversal...
Half The Sky: How to change the world
'Women hold up half the sky' is a Chinese proverb quoted at the start in this bestseller. Yet they are treated as second-class citizens in many parts of the developing...
Getting More
People are irrational. And since people decide 90 per cent of all negotiations ('substance' accounts for only 10 per cent), effective bargaining begins by understanding 'the pictures in the head...
Please stop laughing at me
In the prologue, author Jodee Blanco addresses people who have 'been affected by school bullying', whether as a student, a worried parent, an educator or an adult survivor of bullying. But...
An Object Of Beauty
Controversy, differing valuations, contrasting interpretations - and these just describe the reception to actor-musician Steve Martin's book about art and the art world. Readers used to the man who made his...