Blogs in October 2022

Ghost Town 17th October 2022

Keith Chen, the desperately yearned for second son of a traditional Taiwanese family with five daughters, refuses to play the role his parochial parents would cast him in. Instead, he chooses to make a life for himself in cosmopolitan...

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State of Emergency 17th October 2022

Siew Li leaves her husband and children in Tiong Bahru to fight for freedom in the jungles of Malaya. Decades later, a Malaysian journalist returns to her homeland to uncover the truth of a massacre committed during the Emergency....

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Body Kintsugi 16th October 2022

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with liquid gold, thereby highlighting and celebrating the object’s past. In this powerful and personal novel, Senka Maric uses kintsugi as a lens through which to interrogate ideas of illness...

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The Island of Lost Girls 15th October 2022

Sun-drenched glamour and obscene wealth hide the darkest of secrets and lost girls in this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller. 1985 For twelve-year-old Mercedes,...

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A Cousin Removed 12th October 2022

Max Douglas murders his wife on a pleasant Sunday afternoon in June. He kills her with the easy assurance he does everything else and has witnesses to say her death is an accident. Chief Inspect Millson is suspcious but...

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