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Monday, 14 November 2022

Indie Spotlight: Returning East - from life to a story

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Indie Spotlight  is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy i...
Sunday, 13 November 2022

Dinner at the Cathay, a Memoir of Old Shanghai, guest post by Lara de la Harpe

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Dinner at the Cathay, a Memoir of Old Shanghai, draws together the diverse threads of the author’s family history. Shanghai-born Maureen de...
Sunday, 6 November 2022

IF you fancy going to the Singapore Writers Festival, read this!

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Singapore Writers Festival 2022 (SWF) opened on November 4, and continues until November 20th.  Here, Pooja Nansi, poet, educator and, since...
Sunday, 30 October 2022

Guest post from Victory Witherkeigh, Filipinx author of The Girl

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Filipinx Victory Witherkeigh is an established writer of short stories, and a debut novelist. She is currently living Las Vegas. The Girl  i...
Friday, 14 October 2022

Curiouser and curiouser – Nicky Harman tells the marvellous story of 'Alice in Wonderland' and its Chinese translator

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  What do cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast have in common? They’re all comfort foods that Alic...
Tuesday, 11 October 2022

Audition by Ryu Murakami Review - A Japanese Horror Love Story

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Since it’s Halloween season I decided to review a Japanese horror novel. Audition by the writer Ryu Murakami, is a story about a man findin...
Wednesday, 5 October 2022

Aphrodisiac Foods From Distant Lands: Tse Hao Guang on Jay Gao's 'Imperium'

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Editor's note:  Pardon the overlong hiatus in the poetry column  –  which can be attributed to my having been on reservist training for ...