This book serves not only as an exhilarating piece of espionage non-fiction, but also an insightful historical critique of anti-Semitism and the Jewish state.
Shaun Loh, Raffles Reads
The Good Day I Died is at its core a heartfelt and upfront confession of a man who died and was resurrected, and his transformed life after his return from death. It invites you to contemplate your own outlook on life, and in the process find your own existential path that brings you closer to the happiness you seek in spite of life’s vicissitudes.
Tan Yu You, Raffles Reads
The Death Of Vivek Oji is a heartbreaking, yet uplifting attempt to voice difference. It rejects the singular narrative and seeks multiple ways to be.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
Anvi Doshi holds nothing back in this portrait of warped motherhood, of two women entrenched in despising one another, yet so inextricable that they sometimes slip into, even usurp each other's places.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
A Man is an insightful primer for readers interested in knowing more about Japanese culture and social issues.
Walter Sim, The Straits Times
Deeply compelling and existential, Real Life attempts to get to the heart of how people struggle to connect and the many ways in which they inflict hurt on others.
Ho Ai Li, The Straits Times
A highly satisfying read with charming characters.
Jan Lee, The Straits Times
The Discomfort Of Evening is not for everyone. But those who brave it will discover something unusually, painfully real.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
Bennett is a skilled writer who keeps the pages turning, and a book like The Vanishing Half will engender desperately needed conversations in America and around the world.
Lydia Vasko, The Straits Times
Few authors are as elusive yet unflinchingly, unerringly evocative as Ferrante.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
This is a satisfying fantasy, one in which powerful women get their due.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
Frances Cha gives the women, who rotate as point-of-view characters, distinct voices. Switching seamlessly between voices, Cha makes all of them real and engrossing.
Jan Lee, The Straits Times
Seriously funny.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
Nothing is black and white in Ingrid Persaud's novel Love After Love, which immerses readers in her native Trinidad's bewitching beauty, as well as the violent crime and prejudice that blight it.
Hannah Bock, The Straits Times
If Jesus had had a wife, what would she have been like? What if she had been a writer?
American author Sue Monk Kidd imagines this in her superbly lyrical fourth novel, The Book Of Longings.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
Teenage love affairs are rarely governed by logic and author Jenny Lee, also of Korean descent, does a good job illustrating the fervent lust and longing of young love.
Jan Lee, The Straits Times
Seo shines in her depiction of her characters.
Walter Sim, The Straits Times
This Korean assassin thriller is so inherently cinematic, it is practically a movie beaming off the pages.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
[Barry] can do incredible things with the lyricism of words and he gives Winona a memorable voice that is both lithe and haunting.
Olivia Ho, The Straits Times
The writing is taut and bright and the comedy incisive. From the uneasy popularity of skin-whitening treatments to the pressures that society heaps upon mothers, Nanda takes aim at racism, privilege and unrealistic beauty standards.
