"Sauce of Life" is a family saga set in 1930s British Malaya, where Lai Pek, a middle-aged Chinese businessman, leads a prosperous life with his wife and five children. Pleased with his hard-earned accomplishments and certain of his... Read More

This collection takes the building blocks of life—literally, a number of the chemical elements featured in the poems—and tries to make sense of them. For the most part, Tan Kheng Yeang paints a very dark picture of humanity; many... Read More

“We need a universal language … A universal language cannot be made by spreading one of the current languages … It can properly be established with only a new language, unconnected with any particular nation.” Tan Kheng Yeang has... Read More

Tan Kheng Yeang, who was born in former British Malaya and attended an English school there, is a poet of exuberance and diversity. His latest volume, following a free verse book, Diverse Modes, gathers three collections that draw from... Read More

Walter F. Wild, a native of Hawaii and former psychologist, gives new meaning to the phrase “trouble in paradise” with his second book and first novel, "Escape from Paradise". Who would want to leave the lush paradise of Oahu? Does... Read More

In the song “White Powder” that appears on the first page of "Buzzard Bay", Bob Ferguson shares an ominous warning with Bahamian locals and tourists alike. It reads, “There’s a sayin in the islands an that sayin say / If you want... Read More

Books about investing have always been popular, but never more than following the 2008 recession. Since then, the category has burgeoned with volumes by investment experts, each of whom puts a particular spin on ways to protect and... Read More

Edmund Robert Kowkabany describes "Shards of Ephemera" as a “lurid tale of greed and lust.” The author begins his novel with a nostalgic, exaggeratedly whimsical tone, but the writing soon becomes satirical as Kowkabany launches into... Read More