Tales from the Court and other stories is the first book by Matthew Thomas and the second in the Silverfish Books' Malaysian Literature in English.
As Mohamed M Keshavjee writes in his afterword: ... the author ... is a keen student of human foibles ... His
characters come vividly to life... the very essence of their
being and their cultures as they play their little games in life... (Free
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Malaysia). Go
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RM30.00.00 (USD 19.95)
Silverfish
New Writing 7 by
Ashraf jamal and Shanti Moorthy (Eds). ... stories cannot merely
renounce the present dilemma and limits, they must also address them
... in this collection, we find ourselves between memories and desire,
the old and the new ... say the editors in the Introduction. 19 stories
from malaysia, Singapore and around the world make up the last edition
of the current Silverfisdh New Writing series. (Free
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RM25.00.00 (USD 17.95)
News
from Home by
Chua kok Yee, Shih-Li Kow and Rumaizah Abu Bakar. Three writers, thirty
stories. Are they the 'next big thing' in English Writing in Malaysia?
They are the first to be published from the Silverfish Writing
Programme, and News from Home is the first book to carry the Silverfish
Books Malaysian Literature in English sticker. (Free
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It's a very good historical book about history. Dan Quayle WRITING: The Amazon juggernaut (16 August 2008) A recent story in iStockAnalyst, Amazon.com to Acquire AbeBooks, sent a chill down my spine. Jeff Bezos wants nothing less than world domination. So, why am I surprised? Looks like everyone wants to dominate the world these days: Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dewan Bandaraya … According to the report, Amazon.com, Inc. has announced that, subject to closing conditions, it has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks. Those who are familiar with it, AbeBooks is an online marketplace with (reportedly) over 110 million titles, primarily, used, rare and out-of-print books that are listed by thousands of independent booksellers from around the world or, in other words, the only credible online competition for Amazon.com. One will be able to find pretty much any book that has been printed on Abebooks, and buy it if one is willing to pay the price. From our survey, the prices are very reasonable. But the main cost, due to our geographical location, will be the postage. (I still haven’t decided if I want to spend USD25.00 -- not including postage -- for a mass-market paperback edition of John Allegro's The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross.) I understand that the operative word in business today is no longer monopoly. It is hegemony -- the little guys can set up all the bookshops they want, but we are going to take a cut from it all ... mwahahahaha. READ MORE NEWS: Never too old (16 August 2008)  Martin Wainwright of The Guardian has a report of a 93-year-old debut novelist, Lorna Page. The book, A Dangerous Weakness,
is described as 'a raunchy novel' and ‘a feminist thriller set in
the Alps’ with a heroine who transforms 'the lives of a
93-year-old author and three of her friends who were living in nursing
homes'.The report says, Lorna Page 'wrote A Dangerous Weakness three years ago, but put it in a suitcase and made no attempt to find a publisher'. That was until her daughter-in-law told her that it was a fantastic book and that it was bound to sell. READ MORE NEWS: Oddest book title prize (16 August 2008)  We
have just had a rather limp Booker of Bookers public vote. Now, get
ready for the Diagram of Diagrams. This is from the Bookseller.com
website: 'In celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Diagram Prize
for Oddest Title of the Year, The Bookseller has launched The Diagram
of Diagrams - a public vote to discover the oddest book title of the
last 30 years.’ The online vote can be located at the Bookseller
website. The winner will be announced on Friday, 5th September.'Diagram Group founder Bruce Robertson came up with the idea for the Diagram Prize in 1978 as a way to pass the time at a dreary Frankfurt Book Fair. The inaugural prize was won that year by: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Nude Mice. READ MORE NEWS: I am a junkie (16 August 2008) I creep into my study to be alone. And, I take a whiff. The pungent smell hits the right spot in my brain. The high! The smell of the glue, the leather, the paper, the ink ... the trip, the magical mystery tour, its Lucy in the sky with diamonds ... I haven't even opened the book yet. Henrietta Rose-Innes writes 'on the dark side of books' in The Sunday Times of South African: "Reading is, of course, a good and precious thing ... But literacy has a dark side too, doesn't it?" READ MORE  New Books: Political and Literary Tsunami (16 August
2008)
RESET: Rethinking The Malaysian Political Paradigm by Suflan Shamsuddin (RM 35.00) Many would blame Malaysia's current political upheaval on decades of ineptitude, abuse, and race-based politics. Although the electoral "tsunami" suggests a rejection of past methods, an alignment on the way forward remains in doubt.  ELARTI 2 published by Stormkitchen (RM 15.00)A follow-up to ELARTI 1, this 'bukuzin' is a Granta-like publication that highlights new voices of contemporary writing, in Malay as well as English. READ MORE EVENTS: Book Launch: Tales from the Court (16 August
2008)
The launch of Matthew Thomas' Tales from the Court and other stories will be held at Silverfish Books on Saturday, 6th September 2008 at 5.00 pm. Attending the function and launching the book (all the way from France) will be his very good friend Mohamed M Keshavjee who also wrote the afterword in the book. READ MORE EVENTS: Silverfish Books’ Writers' Forum (16 August 2008) The next meeting of the Silverfish Writers' Forum will be on Saturday, 13th of September 2008 at 2.30pm (since the first Saturday of the month will be taken up by the launch of Matthew Thomas’ book Tales from the Court and other stories). As usual three people will read their works and present them for criticism and comment. This free forum will be held on the first Saturday of each month (as long as interest lasts) and is open to all. But we wish to emphasise that this is a forum for short prose only -- short stories, travelogues, biographies, reportage, etc. This is not a forum for poetry, plays, and movie or radio scripts. Please present them at other suitable fora. WRITING: Two good things (1 August 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Google launches Knol (1 August 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Trivia (1 August 2008) Salman Rushdie's new writing success No such thing as bad publicity READ MORE New Books: Malaysian foibles (1 August 2008) READ MORE SLIDESHOW: Sarada Narayanan at Silverfish Books (1 August 2008) Here is a slideshow. WRITING: The Kindle conundrum (16 July 2008) READ MORE NEWS: One-million English words (16 July 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Replace a book with a tree (16 July 2008) READ MORE New Books: Short stories in Bahasa (16 July 2008) READ MORE EVENTS: Reading at Silverfish Books (16 July 2008) EVENTS: Silverfish Books’ Writers' Forum (1 July 2008) READ MORE WRITING: It was 20 years ago today … (1 July 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Silverfish at Cannes Outdoor Lions (1 July 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Virtual Book Browsing (1 July 2008) READ MORE NEWS: Adults adore children’s books (1 July 2008) READ MORE New Books: Human Rights (1 July 2008) READ MORE EVENTS: Silverfish Books’ Writers' Forum (1 July 2008) READ MORE Links: Asiatic Journal (1 July 2008). Visit http://asiatic.iiu.edu.my/index.htm |
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