I wove a lot of my stories from memory. Years ago, I ditched the practice of carrying a notebook to record insights in life’s other settings. I intended to turn my subconscious and unconscious mind into a trustworthy and bottomless repository of my original thoughts and insights. I practised my intuitive perception. It took me five and a half years to write the novel.
The will of a woman
Whose mastery is fighting
Fighting anything life throws at her
Susan Mallery is the New York Times’ number one bestselling author of novels about the relationships that define women’s lives—family, friendship, romance. She has sold over forty million copies of her books worldwide. Susan grew up in California and now lives in Seattle with her husband.
The 31st edition of the Gratiean Prize for Creative Writing, presented by veteran author Micheal Ondaatje, is now open for submissions.
Ghazala Wahab started FORCE in August 2003 along with Pravin Sawhney. She co-authors Dragon on our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power (with Pravin Sawhney) and Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India. Apart from writing on issues like homeland security, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, Left-Wing Extremism and religious extremism, Wahab is responsible for the overall production of the magazine every month.
Can poets make money in today’s literary market? Everyone says ‘Well, no.’ We say ‘Yes, you can.’ Some poets make a living out of their verses today. There are hundreds of new markets that desperately need poets, surely not the traditional anthologies.
And it enhances your memory. It allows you to fight diseases like dementia and Parkinson’s. Reading is basically like doing a devil-lift for your mind. Reading fiction could be the ideal way to have fun and get away from the daily stresses of your life while giving a boost to your cognitive functioning at the same time.
Eighteen-year-old Nathaniel Carpio has been having chicken inasal with his best friend Elena Dizon at their favourite sidewalk grillery for four years now, but when Lena whips out a silly ‘six-peso coin’ to comfort him on a bad day, Nat realizes that he’s fallen in love with her. Eager to spend the rest of his life with Lena,
What happens when one goes from obscurity to celebrity, overnight? Thirty-year-old Arya Alvarez is a travel manager at Isle Z, a luxury travel company in Singapore where she creates bespoke trips for celebrities and influencers.
Penguin South East Asia introduces an array of page-turners this November. No Room in Neverland, by Joyce Chua, is one of them. It is an addictive and intriguing piece of writing that […]
The day you deprive
Love of lust
It snarls the knell
My affinity and love for ‘seeing’, whether it be art, built and natural environments has, in many ways, directed my vocational journey and also connected me to the various cultures and communities I have entered.
Pure lust or a touch of love
Warmth of another man
Tampering on the marriage wows
What an add to the list of penguin’s pageturners. This does not allow you to sip your tea in the present. It may deprive your sleep. You must read this; don’t miss this in your November list..
He has no special love for the dying children of Gaza nor he cares about the civilian casualties and the destruction of the infrastructure. He only sees opportunity in all that carnage.
Rohit shows us the way how technology, if not checked and observant properly, can bring us on knees in national security, personal commitments, and social welfare. Anyway, the novel is a combination of two aspects that are inevitably looking associated with it – error and terror. Let’s discuss the story at the forepart to grasp what we trying to juxtapose.
Today the global south is more than convinced of a few truths. The International Court of Justice is meant to punish and prosecute only the nations of the Global South.
Another page turner has come out to the world from the house known for decades for memorable books across all genre. Penguin Random House, South East Asia introduced this irresistible piece of writing by Simon Rowe. You must read this, don’t miss this in your November list.
By Dhanuka Dickwella American politics is more dramatic than that of Shakespeare’s magical work. While trying to beat the emotionally driven South Asian trends, the landscape is much deadlier and more competitive […]
KATIE CHEN, 16, lives in the unremarkable suburb of Narre Warren in Australia with her somewhat reclusive Malaysian father. Coming to Australia when she was 5 and losing her mother at 7, she has always struggled with issues of identity.
The Asian Review 