Mph Group Publishing Sdn Bhd imprint: 31 books
by Various Author
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Book Description:
From a shape-shifting tigress, a brave tribal warrior, and a mother who will do anything to protect her child, to a young girl who observes and experiences a loss of innocence, a town with seemingly immortal inhabitants life changes forever after his driving lessons, this...
by Edited by Janet Tay & Eric Forbes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Book Description:
In this rich embroidery of stories set against the landscape of the Malaysian capital, the city of Kuala Lumpur is as much a character as any of the denizens, drifters and dreamers portrayed in the stories. These are portraits of the capital seen through the prism of stories...
Life's Like That
Scenes from Malaysian Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
In this collection of amusing meditations on Malaysian life and its complexities and contradictions, Lydia Teh dives into the depths of Malaysian life: family, pregnancies, babies, motherhood, hobbies, festivities, daily ablutions, pets and other calamities. Not only has...
by Chan Chin Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
“MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, AS THE SAYING GOES. But contrary to this belief, successful entrepreneurs have always contributed to society from time immemorial either by money or in kind. My friends have suggested that I should put my experiences down in writing. To do...
by Edited by Khoo Kheng-Hor & Traslated by Hwang Chung-Mei
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
Recognised as the oldest and most popular military treatise of all time, Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR has been studied by world leaders, military strategist and business executive all over the world.
Why are Japanese companies today so renowned for their excellence and unsurpassed...
Logamania
Where common phrases come from and how to use them
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
EVER WONDERED what a pyrrhic victory is? Been curious if there is a connection between real white elephants and expensive properties that don’t make money? Can’t figure out what a banshee is and why it screams? If you’ve always wanted to know where your favourite expressions...
by Tunku Halim
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
What choices would you make if you could live your life again?
A young rock star is pursued by a female spectre. He flees to a seaside village where he had once tried to kill himself. Back then an old man had rescued him and taught him the guitar. But now what dark...
by Adibah Amin
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Book Description:
ADIBAH AMIN’s As I Was Passing celebrates the Malaysian way of life. In this delightful, inventive collage of anecdotal essays, she looks into the heart and soul of Malaysia, past and present, with humour and through crisp prose. She dissects the Malaysian psyche and its...
Gravedigger’s Kiss
More of Tunku Halim
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
Evil awaits. You see it in your neighbour’s glimmering eyes. You hear it in the footsteps at the dead of night. You smell it in the frangipani blossoms on a wet lonely road.
It hides in all shapes and guises. The fiendish bomoh ... a murderous Datuk ......
by Various authors
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
These stories are the product of a series of creative writing workshops organised by the British Council of Malaysia as part of its Creative Cities programme, in collaboration with the UK-based writer development organisation Spread the Word. From these workshops and online...
by Tom Sykes and Tan May Lee (editors)
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
“Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri …” Thus begins a Malay version of the proverb, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.” Humble, perhaps, but never humdrum. Sini Sana: Travels in Malaysia features the very Malaysian journeys...
Do You Wear Suspenders?
The Wordy Tales of Eh Poh Nim
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Book Description:
DO YOU WEAR SUSPENDERS? THE WORDY TALES OF EH POH NIM is a collection of anecdotes about the everyday life of Eh Poh Nim, a loquacious woman who launches into explanations of words and phrases at the drop of a hat.
Anyone with even a passing interest in the English...
A Backpack and a Bit of Luck
Stories of a Traveller with No Sense of Direction
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
BOOK DESCRIPTION:
Since she fled in terror from an earthworm on the workbench of her biology lab, Zhang Su Li has found herself at various crossroads in life. Her penchant for travelling and talking to strangers may have begun when, as a schoolgirl, she met an old British chap who was posted...
Peeing in the Bush
The Misadventures of Two Asian Girls in Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Book Description:
When Adeline Loh could no longer endure the zombie training camp that is the office, she did what any sensible person would do: flee Malaysia with her paranoid vegetarian companion Chan to explore the lion-infested wilderness of southern Africa. Landing in Zambia, the bush...