Reading the Malay World

Reading the Malay World

Author: Rick Hosking

Publisher: Wakefield Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1862548943

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This collection of essays is the culmination of a symposium on the representation of Malays and Malay culture in Singaporean and Malaysian literature in English held in Universiti Putra Malaysia.


The Dark Clouds Shining

The Dark Clouds Shining

Author: David Downing

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1616956070

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In the fourth and final installment of David Downing’s spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins. With the hopes engendered by the revolution hanging by a thread, plots and betrayals abound. London, 1921: Ex–Secret Service spy Jack McColl is in prison serving time for assaulting a cop. McColl has been embittered by the Great War; he feels betrayed by the country that had sent so many young men to die needlessly. He can’t stomach spying for the British Empire anymore. He’s also heartbroken. The love of his life, radical journalist Caitlin Hanley, parted ways with him three years earlier so she could offer her services to the Communist revolution in Moscow. Then his former Secret Service boss offers McColl the chance to escape his jail sentence if he takes a dangerous and unofficial assignment in Russia, where McColl is already a wanted man. He would be spying on other spies, sniffing out the truth about MI5 meddling in a high-profile assassination plot. The target is someone McColl cares about and respects. The MI5 agent involved is someone he loathes. With the knowledge that he may be walking into a death trap, McColl sets out for Moscow, the scene of his last heartbreak. Little does he know that his mission will throw him back into Caitlin’s life—or that her husband will be one of the men he is trying to hunt down.


Dark Clouds on the Horizon:

Dark Clouds on the Horizon:

Author: W Forje

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2023-01-19

Total Pages: 779

ISBN-13: 9956553859

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This book brings to the fore some critical and fundamental issues plaguing the continent of Africa. It is a symbolic microcosm of challenging issues that Africa has and must address. Can Africa reverse the dark odds and can it move towards a united and integrated whole? The book explores the untold events and negative trends on the economic, social, political, humanitarian and environmental scene in Africa which leaves the international community perceiving Africa through darkened lenses. It tells the dark tragedy of a people ? the economy of alienation and disempowerment as it also injects an encouraging metaphor that the key to the solution of Africas perennial socio-economic-politico transformation rests primarily and decidedly in the hands of African governments and people. Africans are challenged to stop tinkering with the problem but take a progressive Afro-centric approach to effectively address the fate of democracy, management and development in Africa which are closely intertwined. A wide range scope of issues is covered in the preface and the various chapters. The book puts the reader and people in the mode of the tenacity of maintaining a vision of remaining live to the ideals of a progressive Afro-centric agenda that continuing fighting for African development. JOHN W. FORJE is an African peace scientist, educator and peacemaker from Bali Nyongo, North West Region, Cameroon.


Break of Dawn

Break of Dawn

Author: Thensittu a

Publisher:

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781642494785

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Break of Dawn, a collection of poems by debutante author Thensittu A, helps one contemplate on various facets relevant to any occasion. The author creatively expresses her thoughts in the form of eloquently crafted poems that instigate one's deep emotions. Indulging emotions through the theme Seasons, she bedecks fallen leaves; adorns the obscure winter; exults in the colourful spring and graces the warm summer zephyr. Quench your thirst for poetry and awaken your inner child as this book leaves your mind craving for more.


Dark Clouds on the Mountain

Dark Clouds on the Mountain

Author: John Tully

Publisher: Hybrid Publishers

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 187700619X

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Set in wintry Tasmania in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to post-war Hobart and Europe during World War II, this story deals with dark secrets, crime and Nazi plots, interwoven with familiar domestic tensions of family life and marriage. Tully creates a fictional world strongly embedded in authentic details of real locations and well-conceived characters. The earthy, passionate main protagonist, Jack Martin, is richly drawn: 'A typical copper - detective anyway - stressed out most of the time, running on adrenaline, nicotine and coffee. Booze too, but not as much as some of his mates. Running to flab from a diet of meat pipes and sauce, chips and the deep-fried dog's turds they called chicken rolls, gobbled down on the run between cases, ingesting cumulatively lethal doses of salt, sugar and saturated fats.' In this elaborate web of intrigue the ground shifts, the past intrudes and time and place are vividly realised. Brooding violence, tangled mysteries... a gripping read.


Shining Through Dark Clouds

Shining Through Dark Clouds

Author: Ginny Dye

Publisher:

Published: 2019-06-17

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9781093497069

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#15 in The Bregdan Chronicles by BestSelling Author, Ginny Dye. Review: Best Historical Fiction series I have ever read! Keep them coming! Dotti Is Reconstruction healing America, or are Dark Clouds sending a warning? America continues the struggle to become a country for everyone... Carrie struggles to start a new practice in Richmond as tragedy changes her life dramatically. Janie welcomes new life into the world. Rose and Moses almost lose what they hold most precious, and then face new violence on the plantation as anger and frustration boil over. Salvation comes from an unexpected source. Florence Robinson, on the verge of joining the Richmond medical practice, finds herself trapped an ocean away. Felicia, on the brink of womanhood, discovers a new talent that gives her great joy, even while struggling to deal with the source of a burning anger. When everyone really just wants a simple, clear future, each person finds they have to search for the light shining through growing dark clouds. *************** Volume # 15 of the Bregdan Chronicles continues the sweeping historical saga that now encompasses the last months of 1870 through March 1871. How many books will be in the Bregdan Chronicles? No one knows yet... Ginny intends to write these character's stories, one year at a time, for as long as she is able to write. She is passionate about bringing history to life through historical fiction. Since she is amazingly healthy, that could be for a very long time! She doesn't like stories to end any more than you do. This one won't end for a very long time!


Darkness Before Dawn

Darkness Before Dawn

Author: Sharon M. Draper

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-23

Total Pages: 23

ISBN-13: 1442489154

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Recovering from the recent suicide of her ex-boyfriend, senior class president Keisha Montgomery finds herself attracted to a dangerous, older man.