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Simon Winchester's concise history of precision engineering and its impact also asks some incisive questions first published in The St...

Andrew Santella builds a good case for killing time first published in The Star , 24 July 2018 The inclination to delay or distract one...

James Patterson teams up with Bill Clinton in what might be this year's summer blockbuster read first published in The Star , 08 June...

A tale of a high-stakes rescue of a trove of ancient manuscripts that is the stuff of legends first published in The Star , 16 November 20...

How YouTube and its stars are driving a revolution in media first published in The Star , 07 November 2017 This book made me feel old a...

first published in The Star , 19 September 2017 "Everybody lies" is a favourite maxim of Hugh Laurie's character, Dr Gregor...

first published in The Star , 03 September 2017 "...Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong" is a pretty eyecatchin...

first published in Star2 in The Star , 13 June 2017 The Osage Indians of Oklahoma in the United States speak of a "flower-killing mo...

Not too long after I received this book, my contact at the distributors' side left the company, and production started picking up after ...

This novel was, like the title says, hard to like. Once The Lowland was released, Jhumpa Lahiri was everywhere. It's like she already...

first published in The Star , 26 May 2013 ♪ ... we are poor little lambs who have lost our way Baa, baa, baa! ♫ In those lines from th...

first published in The Star , 24 March 2013 It is impossible to come away from Ayana Mathis's The Twelve Tribes Of Hattie without a ...

I didn't spend much time 'unpacking' this book because I was way too creeped out by some of the nasty behaviours recorded within...

I enjoyed this book. Alright, so the three industries aren't really dead yet - just in shambles, thanks largely to the technology that...

At first, the idea of the supernatural in the setting seemed interesting, only because I haven't read anything like this. But I'm no...

This is no spicy literary pick-me-up perfumed by the kind of exoticism generally associated with the Indian subcontinent first published i...

An enchanting Sunday afternoon roast at Albion KL first published in The Star , 15 September 2012 Melody leads a charmed life. She gets...