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Step into the captivating world of Until Even the Angels by Suzanne Scott Tomita (2024), a gripping mystery set against the backdrop of colonial Singapore. Mandakini Arora praises the author’s 'elegant, often poetic prose' and highlights the richly complex characters that promise to spark engaging discussions in book clubs.

Mandakini Arora reviews Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop, a novel about renewal and healing. ...

A work of historical fiction and time travel, Elaine Chew's The Light Between Us is an unusually sweet story of love across time in S'pore.

Review of Paul Theroux's fictionalized novel inspired by the life George Orwell when he served in the police force in British-ruled Burma.

Mandakini reviews the Korean novel, Concerning My Daughter, that explores themes of parental expectations, societal pressure, and love.

Mandakini Arora's book review of Oprah's Book Club novel, The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verhese.

Review of Rachel Heng's engaging novel, The Great Reclamation based in post-WW2 Singapore, by AWA member and historian Mandakini Arora.

By Mandakini Arora The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng, 2023 If you are a Tan Twan Eng fan, his third novel will remind you why. If this...

By Mandakini Arora The Accidental Malay by Karina Robles Bahrin, 2022 The Accidental Malay caught my eye at the WH Smith bookstore in...

by Mandakini Arora Book: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka, 2020 Narrated entirely in the second person by a dead...

by Mandakini Arora How We Disappeared by Jing-Jing Lee, 2019 How We Disappeared opens with three versions of Ng Wang Di’s birth, common...

by Mandakini Arora Book: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz, 2022 “The revulsion of having to talk about our mother’s uterus was bad...