Books & Reviews
Sunday, 16 June 2013
THIS book is a compilation of working papers that was presented during the Brunei History Seminar III which was organised by the Brunei History Centre on March 8 to 9, 2006, in conjunction with the 22nd Anniversary of the country's Independence Day....
DAN BROWN'S "Inferno" kept a tight hold on the top spot of the US best-sellers list on Thursday for the fourth straight week.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent...
WHEN an American explorer named William Henry Furness III arrived on the remote Pacific island of Yap at the start of the last century, he found a scarcely touched place that made his previous destination of Borneo look almost developed.Yet despite...
Sunday, 9 June 2013
THIS gripping account of a daughter coping with her mother's Alzheimer's showcases the talents of an American writer worthy of wider recognition.This is an account of a descent into Alzheimer's, garlanded with stories that wrench sense from that...
DAN BROWN'S "Inferno" held onto the top spot on the US best-sellers list on Thursday for the third consecutive week.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors...
AN often breathtakingly dark and crazy satire on modern American life caused a literary upset on Wednesday when it won the women's prize for fiction beating novels by Zadie Smith, Kate Atkinson and the bookies' favourite, Hilary Mantel.AM Homes...
Sunday, 2 June 2013
"INFERNO", Dan Brown's latest book, maintained the top spot on the the US best-sellers list on Thursday for the second week.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent...
THE war in Afghanistan has cost Britain at least £37bn (around $71 billion) and the figure will rise to a sum equivalent to more than £2,000 for every taxpaying household, according to a devastating critique of the conflict.Since 2006,...
BRUNEIANS Read (B:Read), an organisation aiming to promote a stronger reading culture in Brunei, has recently set up a new initiative called Free Library.The first Free Library is located at Gloria Jean's Coffee at Citis Square. Inside the cafe is a...
Sunday, 26 May 2013
"INFERNO", Dan Brown's latest book, shot to the top of the US best-sellers list on Thursday.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide in the US.Hardcover...
HOSSEINI'S shamelessly enjoyable tale of separated siblings draws on the tradition of the American airport novel and is none the worse for it.The US novelist Khaled Hosseini has made a career writing about the recent history of his native...
Sunday, 19 May 2013
NOT just a story of decline, Goulson's book offers fascinating insights into the world of the bumblebee.Nothing better illustrates the mess we've made of managing the environment on which our survival depends.When you next plop it over your chips,...
NORA ROBERT'S "Whiskey Beach" is still at the top of the PublishersWeekly's bestseller list for this week. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide in...
EVER wondered what went through author JK Rowling's (pic) mind when she wrote the first "Harry Potter" novel?Fans of books about the boy wizard will have a chance to bid on a unique first edition of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's...
Sunday, 12 May 2013
THE emergence of Vladimir Putin (pic) can only be understood as the second chapter of a story that began with the collapse of the Soviet Union.The problem is that there is still little agreement about what happened in chapter one. Most western...
NORA ROBERTS' "Whiskey Beach"is still at the top of the Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for thisweek. The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide in...
"I HAVE seized the light. I have arrested its flight." So wrote Louis Daguerre in a letter to his friend Charles Chevalier in 1839. A flamboyant and ruthlessly ambitious French scientist, Daguerre is the most famous of the founding fathers...
Sunday, 21 April 2013
--A conversation with Nurfatehah Shamsul "A Conversation With" is a series where B:Read interviews readers in Brunei, asking them questions pertaining to genres they enjoy reading and looking into their reading pattern. We hope this series will...
MARY HIGGIN'S "Daddy's Gone a Hunting" debuted at the top of the Publishers Weekly's bestseller list on Thursday.The list is compiled using data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors...
Sunday, 14 April 2013
LIKE her 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Olive Kitteridge", much of Elizabeth Strout's new novel takes place in a small Maine town in which the characters tackle big issues."The Burgess Boys" (pic) centres on the family...
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