A journey through the history and science of epidemics and pandemics
BY NIA NATASHA HASENAN Book Title: Outbreaks and Epidemics – Battling infection from measles to coronavirusISBN: 9781785785634Author: Meera SenthilingamPublication: Icon BooksPublication Year: 2020Price: RM50 For decades, humanity has been fighting a war against diseases that would have the potential to wipe out towns, or even whole societies, if left untreated. With all our advanced scientific […]
If you could travel back in time, what would you change?
Book Title: Before the Coffee Gets ColdISBN: 9781529029581Author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi (translated by Geoffrey Trousselot)Publication: Pan MacmillanPublication Year: 2019 (English edition)Price: RM50 Time travel has always been a popular concept used in books and movies, often inspiring one to wonder what they would do if they could travel in time. ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ is […]
An insight into mental health
Title: How Are You?Author: Atman Azlan & Atman AriPublisher: Iman PublicationPublication year: 2019ISBN: 978-983-2423-74-4Price: RM30 How Are You? is a book that gives an insight into what mental health is like. The book further explains about stress, anxiety and depression. Mental health issues can be a huge topic to talk about. It’s really complicated and […]
A distinctively Malaysian novel
Book title: The PensionerISBN: 9789670311401Author: Adam SaidPublication year: 2019Publisher: Gerak BudayaPrice: RM30 In ‘The Pensioner’ by Penang-born author Adam Said, the reader follows Khalid Arshad’s story as he journeys on into retirement with his wife, Azizah. This has been a very delightful read to me, especially when it involves places familiar to me in Penang […]
Malaysian version of ‘Art of War’
Book title: Hijack in Malaysia: The Fall of Pakatan HarapanISBN: 9789671494615Author: Francis Paul SiahPublication year: 2020Publisher: TRAC-WHEELS (M) SDN BHDPrice: RM40 HOW in the world can an iconic nonagenarian pull off a love-hate relationship with his enemy to topple his other enemy and then topple his own enemy-turned-ally establishment in a matter of 22 months? […]
Be like Mike, driven from within
BY STANLEY CHAI Title : Driven From WithinAuthor: Michael JordanIMPRINT: Atria BooksPUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster, Inc.RELEASED: Oct 24, 2005ISBN: 9781416524137Price: $24.99/RM105 Everyone who knows basketball, knows Michael Jordan; except me when I started playing basketball. I have no idea who Jordan was when I was 12, the age when I first started playing. It was […]
An entertaining whimsical adventure
Book title: Killing Commendatore (Paperback)ISBN: 9781784707330Author: Haruki MurakamiPublication year: 2019Publisher: VintagePrice: RM52.90 Haruki Murakami is among the best Japanese authors around. Most of his books are translated into numerous languages and Murakami never disappoints his readers. Often with the fundamental of realism, Murakami’s latest novel — ‘Killing Commendatore’ can be predictable, as it held inspiring […]
A crisis not to be taken lightly
Book title: No one is too small to make a differenceISBN: 9780141991740Author: Greta ThunbergPublication year: 2019Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (GB)Price: RM39.90 No one is certainly too small to make a difference when it revolves around major issues that pose a threat to our future or even the planet’s future. The author, Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman […]
Story about a young detective
Book title: Nothing Ventured (paperback)ISBN: 9781509851300Author: Jeffrey ArcherPublication year: 2020Publisher: Pan MacMillanPrice: RM45.90 This global No 1 bestseller by Jeffrey Archer heralds the start of a brand new series and introduces Detective William Warwick. It is not a detective story but a story about the makings of a detective in London, England. William wanted to […]
Gorgeous all the way through
Book title: On Earth We’re Briefly GorgeousISBN: 9780525562023Author: Ocean VuongPublication year: 2019Publisher: Penguin PressPrice: RM120 (Hardcover) Ocean Vuong’s devastatingly beautiful first novel, as evocative as its title, is a painful but extraordinary coming-of-age story about surviving the aftermath of trauma. It takes the form of a young Vietnamese American writer’s letter to his illiterate mother […]