Carmen has read Coffee with Dickens
Title: Coffee with Dickens Author: Paul Schlicke Publisher: London: Duncan Baird, 2008 Call No.: English 823.8 SCH If you’ve been in the know, it was Charles Dickens 200th birth day in February 2012. In NLB, we’ve celebrated it with book display posters and a fiction alert here on High Browse. I’ve picked out Coffee with...
Print to Screen: The 84th Academy Awards
For this year’s Oscars aka the Academy Awards coming on 26 February, many of the contenders for the Best Picture category are adapted from or based on books: six out of the nine nominees. This is the highest number of film adaptations we’ve seen these few years. Click here to find out more about books...
Heartlands Book Club February discussion: George Orwell’s 1984
We are discussing the classic work 1984 by George Orwell. This will be our first ebook discussion for the year. Date/Time: 5.00 pm, Friday 24 February 2012 Venue: The Activity Room, Bukit Batok Public Library Author/Title: 1984 by George Orwell. Call No.: ORW Facilitator: Mr. Paul Fitzpatrick, Lecturer The free ebook version can be downloaded...
Wan Ni has read Please Look After Mom
Title: Please Look After Mom: a novel Author: Kyung-sook Shin Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, c2011 Call No.: English SIN Nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize, Please Look After Mom is a bestselling novel by Shin Kyung-sook, published in 2009, translated in 2011. The title does not shy from its emotional plot; an...
Cover Story: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
Title: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities Editors: Ann & Jeff Vandermeer Publisher: New York : Harper Voyager, c2011 Call No.: English THA -[FN] This volume is a collection of articles by Science Fiction and Fantasy authors such as Cherie Priest, Lev Grossman, China Mieville and Alan Moore. It is premised on the collection...
Singapore’s Founding Father Toh Chin Chye Passes
(Photo image taken from www.channelnewsasia.com) One of Singapore’s Founding Fathers, and PAP Old Guard, Dr Toh Chin Chye, has passed on. His will be a private funeral, although in recognition of his contributions to the State, the Government has accorded Dr Toh the “honour of being borne on the ceremonial gun carriage for his final...
Fiction Alert: Celebrating Charles Dickens with Something for Everyone
The world celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of iconic British writer Charles Dickens this month. Born Charles John Huffam Dickens on 7 February 1812, he is arguably one of the greatest authors of the Victorian era, if not of English literature. What better way is there than to make the celebration your own...
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