Welcome book-savvy shoppers!

It's a fact! Books are expensive in Malaysia. Bestselling items are never sold below RM40. You'd think that only the imported ones would carry a hefty tag, but no. Books penned by local authors can also burn a hole in your wallet. Even children books can be ridiculously priced.



Which explains why I, and possibly thousands of Malaysians out there, would go on a book bargain-hunting. I get all excited every time I enter a used bookstore the same when I go to Kinokuniya. I love books and I certainly love cheap books. And I know the lot of you who had entered this humble abode of a blog of mine are on the same hunting ground of finding cheap reading materials for yourself and your child.



So, welcome folks. I have listed down some of the pre-loved books that I'm willing to part with. Most of the books are in excellent condition. I dare say, if I hadn't scrape the price stickers off, it could be passed off as brand new.



Most of the children books, however, are brand new. These are clearance stocks from my hey-day stint as children reading/ learning and teaching aid materials trader.



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Friday, November 5, 2010

Top Author/ Book Review

Tim Willocks for The Religion
Tim Willocks is a British doctor and novelist born in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, England. An experienced psychiatrist, Willocks has worked for some years on the rehabilitation of the sufferers of drug addiction.

His most recent novel called The Religion is set in 1565 during the Grand Siege of Malta in 1565 and is the start of a projected trilogy. It centres around the adventures of Mattias Tannhauser a Saxon-born man who, after his family is killed, is trained and becomes a janissary in the army of the Ottoman Empire.
After years of service he is repulsed by the ferocious life he lives and he becomes an arms and opium merchant. He is forced to return back from retirement to help the Order of the Hospitaliers against the army of Suleiman the Magnificent and to help one young Maltese countess find her long lost son.
Willocks is rumoured to have had a brief relationship with pop star Madonna. Willocks also is an avid poker fan.


Willocks' published works:
  • Bad City Blues (1991)
  • Green River Rising (1995)
  • Bloodstained Kings (1996)
  • Swept from the Sea (1997)
  • Amy Foster (1998)
Mattias Tannhauser trilogy
  1. The Religion (2006)
  2. Twelve Children of Paris (2010)
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