Lee Ping has read “The Madonna of the Almonds”
Title: The Madonna of the Almonds Author: Marina Fiorato Publisher: London: Beautiful Books, 2009 Call No.: FIO Image: All rights Reserved. London: Beautiful Books. 2009. Set in 16th century Italy, The Madonna of the Almonds tells the story of Simonetta di Saronno, a beautiful young noblewoman, who is unfortunately widowed when her equally good-looking husband...
Fiction Alert: Whodunnit?
Foreword Enthused from watching Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame, I thought I’d revisit other ‘tales of detection’ and the characters central to the popularity of those stories. So, in this edition, we look at different sleuths and their practice of this fine and unique art: a private investigator in the Roman...
Spotlight on Ebooks: a quick look at Nineteen Eighty-Four
Image: All Rights Reserved. New York: Plume. 2003. In Orwell’s famed dystopian novel, the year 1984 is not what we have been through. In the region of Oceania, the people are governed by a totalitarian regime. Big Brother, or the party in power, is watching everyone all the time. This is a society where truth...
Heartlands Book Club meets Professor Walter Woon
The bookclub is honored to have Professor Walter Woon, Singapore’s former Attorney-General, to discuss his novel “The Devil to Pay”. Date/Time: 26 November 2010 / 5.00pm (Friday) Venue: The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library About the author: Walter Woon returned to academia after serving a two-year term (2008–2010) as Singapore’s Attorney-General. He is now...
Fiction Alert: Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Literary Highlights D.H.Lawrence’s infamous novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, was first published in 1928 in Italy. The full uncensored version of this sexually explicit novel was published in Britain by Penguin Books only in 1960. The novel was brought to court in Britain under its Obscene Publications Act, and acquitted on Nov 2 1960. Summary of...
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