Alas, poor Yorick!
HB Squad ALERT! . gossip + snippets Those who are familiar with the DDC will know that strange stuff can be found in the 000s section. Although it’s boringly entitled “Generalities”, it’s a haven for fans of the paranormal/unexplained – crop circles, lake monsters, yetis, aliens, hauntings… you name it, if it’s weird, it’s probably located in that shelf! Just...
Daryl Sng has read ‘The Weather Makers’
WHO’S READING WHAT . reader’s recommendations The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c2005. Call No.: English 363.73874 FLA (Click here for item availability) In The Weather Makers, Australian biologist Tim Flannery details the history...
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Best of the Bookers
HB Squad Alert . gossip + snippets The shortlist of Best of the Bookers award has been announced and it pits six past winners of the Booker Prize to determine which novel is the best winning one since the prize began in 1969. It is a one-off celebratory award to mark the 40th anniversary of...
Heartlands Book Club Discussion – May 2008
HAPPENIN’ . programmes + events Enjoy things retro? For May discussion, we are doing a historical fiction of Singapore in the 1950s and 1960s. The author Dr Julian Davison, a keen biographer, wrote this collection of stories of that period having lived through it. The book was an instant bestseller when it was published in...
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Bashu, the Little Stranger (directed by Bahram Beizai)
MUSINGS . library@esplanade Bashu, the Little Stranger (Bashu, Gharibeye Koochak) Directed by: Bahram Beizai Starring: Susan Taslimi, Parviz Pourhosseini, Adnan Afravian Year: 1990 Call No.: Other 791.4372 BAS Location: Film Village, library@esplanade It is the Iran-Iraq War. Bombs from an Iraqi air raid rain down on a small village in Khuzestan, Southern Iran. Hiding in...
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